Emelyn Bashour
Violin instructor
Hailing from small-town Massachusetts, violinist Emelyn Bashour has performed across North and South America. She holds an MM in violin performance from University of Michigan and a BM in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music, as well as BA in English Literature from University of Rochester. She served as concertmaster of U-M’s University Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia. Previous teachers include Aaron Berofsky, Renée Jolles, and Lynn Chang.
Emelyn is a section member of the Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, and Dearborn symphony orchestras, as well as the Des Moines Metro Opera orchestra. She is an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and a finalist with the New World Symphony. She has participated in summer festivals such as Orpheus@Mannes, the Vermont Mozart Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, and the Aspen Music Festival, and has played in the orchestra at Spoleto Festival USA for two seasons. During Spoleto’s 2019 season she served as concertmaster for the festival’s flagship production of Salome, and was engaged as a featured soloist for the 2020 season.
As a soloist and chamber player, Emelyn is a passionate advocate for contemporary music. She was a guest performer at Central Michigan University’s New Music Symposium with ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, and with UM’s Contemporary Directions Ensemble has performed as part of New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music series and the Great Performances series at the Toledo Museum of Art. She is also a member of the Ann Arbor-based contemporary ensemble Girlnoise.
In addition to her busy performance schedule, Emelyn coaches the first violin section of the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin and viola lessons, privately and at the Hudson Education Center in Dexter, MI.
Emelyn is a section member of the Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, and Dearborn symphony orchestras, as well as the Des Moines Metro Opera orchestra. She is an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and a finalist with the New World Symphony. She has participated in summer festivals such as Orpheus@Mannes, the Vermont Mozart Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, and the Aspen Music Festival, and has played in the orchestra at Spoleto Festival USA for two seasons. During Spoleto’s 2019 season she served as concertmaster for the festival’s flagship production of Salome, and was engaged as a featured soloist for the 2020 season.
As a soloist and chamber player, Emelyn is a passionate advocate for contemporary music. She was a guest performer at Central Michigan University’s New Music Symposium with ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, and with UM’s Contemporary Directions Ensemble has performed as part of New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music series and the Great Performances series at the Toledo Museum of Art. She is also a member of the Ann Arbor-based contemporary ensemble Girlnoise.
In addition to her busy performance schedule, Emelyn coaches the first violin section of the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin and viola lessons, privately and at the Hudson Education Center in Dexter, MI.
