Emily Nebel

Emily Nebel enjoys a varied performing career as orchestral leader and chamber musician. She has appeared as guest concertmaster with a range of opera companies such as the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. She regularly works with symphonic orchestras as well, guest leading ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, to name a few.

She has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra and Phoenix Symphony and in 2019 played Walton's Violin Concerto with John Wilson and the Academy Symphony Orchestra in London. An avid chamber musician, Emily has been invited to numerous chamber music festivals, such as IMS Prussia Cove and Open Chamber Music, Krzyzowa Music Festival in Poland, Domaine Forget in Canada and the Corbridge and Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festivals in the UK.

Emily maintains an interest in early music performance practice ever since her introduction to it during a semester of studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Music in Paris. She has toured South America and Spain as co-leader of the period ensemble Arcangelo, performed as principal 2nd violin of the Dunedin Consort, and frequently plays with Music of the Baroque in Chicago.

Following degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Emily continued her studies in Europe, first in Frankfurt at the Hochschule für Musik followed by the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with an Advanced Diploma on the prestigious Bicentenary Scholarship Scheme. She greatly benefited from the guidance of Paul Kantor, Sophia Jaffe, Levon Chilingirian and Olivier Charlier as well as from masterclasses with James Ehnes, Gil Shaham, Ruggiero Ricci, Mark O’Connor and many others.

Emily’s debut album of French sonatas, recorded with pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula and released in 2020 on the Linn Records label, can be found in their catalog as well as on Apple Music and Spotify.