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Emily Osinski, violinist, was born in 1983 and began playing the violin
at age three in Anchorage, Alaska. During her childhood
years she studied with Beverly Beheim and later Therese
Fetter and Frederick Halgedahl in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She
attended the Indiana University Summer String Academy to
study with Mimi Zweig, the Hot Springs Music Festival with
Thomas Moore, Academy of Music at Ramapo College with Isaac
Malkin and Emanuel Borok and Music Academy of the West with
Zvi Zeitlin. At age fifteen Emily won her first job as a
member of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra. At
eighteen she won the orchestra's Concerto Competition and
made her solo debut.
Emily holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from
the Eastman School of Music (2006), where she studied with
Mikhail Kopelman. While at Eastman, she regularly sat in the
Concertmaster chair with the Eastman School Symphony
Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia. After graduating,
she studied privately with Eastman professor Zvi Zeitlin for
two years.
As a freelance violinist in Upstate New York, Emily is
the Concertmaster/Adjunct Faculty of the Roberts Wesleyan
College Community Orchestra, Co-Concertmaster of the
Brighton Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of the
Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, a regular substitute
in the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber
Orchestra, Binghamton Philmarmonic, Rochester Chamber
Orchestra, Skaneateles Festival Orchestra, and the
Rochester Oratorio Society. She was the solo violinist for
the 30th anniversary production of Sweeney Todd at Geva
Theatre in 2009. Emily has been on the faculty of the
Hochstein School of Music and Dance as a chamber music coach
since 2008, the New Horizons Summer Chamber Music program at
the Eastman Community Music School, and the Olentangy Music
Festival since 2010. Chamber music experience includes
playing with Quartsemble from 2008-09, the Marini String
Ensemble from 2006-present, performing at the Cedar Valley
Chamber Music Festival from 2007-present, and the Hochstein
Quartet Project in 2010. She often gives solo recitals with
her brother, pianist Lee Schmitz. Emily also enjoys being an
AVON representative, doing ballet, eating chocolate, acting
in local films, and spending time with her husband.
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