Emily Nebel

Emily Nebel enjoys a varied performing career as orchestral leader and chamber musician. She is Assistant Concertmaster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center. Since the age of 24 she has appeared as guest concertmaster with numerous symphony and opera orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Staatstheater Darmstadt, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and La Monnaie in Brussels, to name a few. As soloist, she has performed in the UK, Germany and the US with such orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra and Phoenix Symphony performing concertos by Walton, Britten, Saint-Saëns and others. 

An avid chamber musician, Emily has performed extensively as a recitalist and with various chamber ensembles. She has regularly been invited to chamber music festivals at home and abroad, such as Krzyzowa Music Festival in Poland, Domaine Forget in Canada and IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, North York Moors, Corbridge and Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festivals in the UK. Her debut album of French sonatas, recorded with pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, was released in 2020 on the Linn Records label. 

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