Canadian-German violinist Emma Meinrenken is pursuing her Master of Musical Arts at Yale University under the tutelage of Augustin Hadelich. She is the recipient of Yale’s Presser Foundation Music Award and Alumni Association Award. She has a BA from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian and was awarded the Milka Violin Artist Prize. She was also a student of Atis Bankas at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she spent her formative years in the Taylor Performance Academy.

Meinrenken has won many top awards internationally, including 1st place at the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the Prix Ravel at the Ecole d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. She has been a performer in many music festivals, including the Norfolk Music Festival, the Verbier Festival Academy, and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Meinrenken is often featured at the Music Niagara Festival, and has been a faculty member for the festival’s academy since 2020. 

Meinrenken debuted with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2011, and has since performed with many other orchestras across North America. She also works with orchestras as a section player, having been a substitute for the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2021, and playing as concertmaster for the Yale Philharmonia. She often collaborates with composers, recently premiering a violin concerto by Maya Miro Johnson with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Meinrenken plays on the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts, and is supported by the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation.