photo credit - Geoff Sheil
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Emily Cantrell Sheil is an experienced violist and teacher based in Leipzig, Germany and freelancing throughout the region. Until midsummer 2018, Emily was an active freelancer in the greater Washington DC region (USA) and regular guest in the viola sections of many area orchestras such as the Richmond Symphony and the New Orchestra of Washington. Emily's previous experience includes time as principal violist of Symphony Number One, as a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra viola section, and as principal violist (Solo-Bratschistin, Praktikantin) of the Neue Philharmonie, Berlin for the 2018-2019 season.
Throughout the summer of 2016 Emily toured with Music in the American Wild, an Eastman-based ensemble, performing eleven newly commissioned works in seven US National Parks as part of the Park Service's centennial celebration. The ensemble's first recording project, including videos capturing the stunning vistas of the National Parks, is now available in part on YouTube or in full for purchase on Bandcamp. Highlights of Emily's recent chamber music engagements include: a collaborative performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden (string quartet) with the Deutsche Tanzkompanie Neustrelitz in Anklam, Germany; a variety of performances as a viola fellow at the 2018 Vermont Mozart Festival; an “If Music be the Food…” collaboration with Kim Kashkashian in Rochester, NY; and the premier of "Bare" by composer Geoff Sheil with Molly Jones, cello in College Park, MD. Emily is also a founding member of the Leipzig-based Kainos String Trio, whose mission is to bring music from the canonical to the contemporary to audiences in and around Sachsen. Emily has spent her summers as a fellow at the Vermont Mozart Festival (VT USA), Lumino Festival of the Arts (CT USA), Castleton Festival (VA USA), Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (VT USA), Brevard Music Center (NC USA), Atlantic Music Festival (ME USA), Franco-American Vocal Academy (Salzburg AT), and as Chamber Music and Library staff for the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (MD USA). |
Emily earned a Master of Music in Viola Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music with Carol Rodland, and a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance at the University of Maryland, College Park with Katherine Murdock.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys running, yoga, knitting and crocheting, and reading everything from Jane Austen to David Foster Wallace.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys running, yoga, knitting and crocheting, and reading everything from Jane Austen to David Foster Wallace.
