Amber Emson

Amber Emson started playing violin at the age of 5 as a pupil of Margaret Norris and later Natasha Boyarsky; in 2009 she joined the Royal Academy of Music’s Junior Department. As a student at Chetham’s School of Music 2014-16, she won the Concerto Competition resulting in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Chetham’s Sinfonia at Manchester Cathedral, and the Catherine Perkins Chamber Music Prize. Since September 2016 Amber has been home schooled; she currently studies violin under the tutelage of Maciej Rakowski and enhances her music education at the Royal College of Music’s Junior Department.