About Emily Bosenius

Featured on CBC Music’s 2023 classical “30 under 30” list, Canadian violinist Emily Bosenius has been praised for performances of imagination and conviction and is equally at home performing as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout North America and Europe.

Emily completed her Master of Arts at London’s Royal Academy of Music (Dist.) with a DipRAM for outstanding final recital in 2023, in the classes of violinists Michael Foyle and Maureen Smith, and is currently studying on the Academy's Professional Diploma Course. At the Academy Emily has worked with Conductors Ryan Wigglesworth, Semyon Bychkov, John Wilson, Ludovic Morlot, and Sir Mark Elder. She recorded for Linn Records with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, held principal positions in the Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras, and performed chamber music with violist Lawrence Power. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, the Conservatory Royal de Bruxelles, at Gloucester Cathedral with the Academy's Sainsbury Soloists, alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, and at Apsley House for Princess Antonia of Prussia. A keen duo recitalist in numerous venues in and outside of London, Emily has been invited to perform at the Academy’s Summer Piano Festival and was Commended in the 2022 String and Piano Duo Prize.

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Emily has performed in masterclasses for violinists Boris Brovstyn, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Clara-Jumi Kang, Simone Lamsma, Tasmin Little, Mihaela Martin, and Pavel Vernikov. Festival appearances include the 2024 Aldeburgh Festival, 2021 Aspen Music Festival and School as a Dorothy Richard Starling Fellow, co-leading the 2023 Festival Academy Budapest Orchestra, 2023 Sion Tibor Varga Music Academy, and 2022 VERÃO CLÁSSICO Masterclasses, touring Germany, Scotland, and Canada with the 2018 National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and touring Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto alongside the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2017.

Emily completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, studying with the Toronto Symphony’s Concertmaster, Jonathan Crow. In addition to winning both the Faculty of Music's Concerto Competition and Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award, Emily also received the Gerhard Kander Violin Award and the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship. She has appeared as soloist with the Koffler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of the late Jacques Israelievitch C.M., and with the Oakville Chamber Orchestra. She will perform with the Guelph Symphony Orchestra and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Uri Mayer in April 2024.

She is generously supported by Help Musicians UK, George Egerton Music Fund, the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund and the Maple Leaf Trust. Emily performs on a violin by Andrea Gatto / Cappa (c. 1660, Turin) on loan from the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation.

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