Featured on CBC Music’s 2023 “30 under 30” Canadian Classical Musicians, violinist Emily Bosenius has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe. Emily received her Master of Arts (Dist.) and DipRAM on scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Music, studying with violinists Michael Foyle and Maureen Smith. She is currently enrolled in the Academy’s Professional Diploma programme and performs on a 1794 Giovanni Battista Ceruti violin, generously on loan from the Royal Academy.

Emily performs with the Academy’s Sainsbury Soloists Ensemble and has recorded for Linn Records with the RAM Symphony Orchestra, in 2022 she was Commended in the Academy’s String and Piano Duo Prize. Emily received her BMus (Hons.) from the University of Toronto, studying with Jonathan Crow, where she won all major prizes and received the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship and the Gerhard Kander Graduating Award for Violin.

Festival appearances include the 2021 Aspen Music Festival as a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Fellow, Festival Academy Budapest and Sion Tibor Varga Masterclasses with Mihaela Martin and Pavel Vernikov, and the 2018 National Youth Orchestra of Canada. In 2023 Emily made her solo debut in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and in 2022 was selected to perform chamber music for Princess Antonia of Prussia.

Emily holds the teaching Licentiate from the Academy (LRAM) and has joined the Benedetti Foundation as a 2024 Instrumental Ambassador.

Emily’s studies are generously supported by Help Musicians UK, the George Egerton Music Fund, the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund and Maple Leaf Trust.