Bio

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Biography

Emma Method is a violist and violinist currently based in Lansing, MI.

As a chamber musician, Emma has performed at the Domaine Forget International Music Festival, the Blue Mountain Chamber Music Festival and the Sewanee Music Festival as the 2019 Viola Fellow. She has performed with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra in both the Kimmel Center and Alice Tully Hall, and has participated in masterclasses with Martin Chalifour, Atar Arad and Miguel Da Silva among other artists. Emma is an advocate both for contemporary classical music and early music: she has premiered several works by student composers, played with the Temple University Contemporary Ensemble and the TU Early Music Ensemble on the baroque viola.

As a project manager, Emma worked on the original Symphony For a Broken Orchestra, a community engagement project designed to bring awareness to the lack of music funding in public schools. This project was covered by The Atlantic, NPR and The New York Times. She subsequently worked for the international initiative Found Sound Nation and as a liaison between Temple University's Fox School of Business and the Boyer College of Music and Dance.

Emma graduated with a BM from Temple University and is working toward her MM at Michigan State University. She has studied under Yuri Gandelsman, former chair of Music at MSU and Kerri Ryan, assistant principal violist of The Philadelphia Orchestra.