Emilia Mettenbrink

Currently a freelance violinist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Emilia Mettenbrink is a sub violinist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Minnesota Opera. She performs as the Principal Second violinist for the Firebird Chamber Orchestra in Miami, Florida. She toured Paris last year performing Porgy and Bess with Opèra Comique and the New World Symphony and spends her summers as the concertmaster and solo violinist for the CCM Opera Spoleto Festival (previously Opera-Lucca) in Italy. In her most recent solo engagement she performed the Lou Harrison Violin Concerto with the New World Symphony percussion section in the spring of 2009.

Emilia grew up in Minneapolis Minnesota and attended Madeline Island Music Camp while she was a student of Mary West. Madeline Island was one of her first experiences with chamber music and it made an impression on her that has lasted into adulthood. She sought out chamber music opportunities as

well as opera in her summers with the Aspen Music Festival while pursuing a Bachelors as a student of Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. She received her Masters degree from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 2003 and at the same time was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. In her spare time, Emilia is a certified yoga instructor and avid practitioner of the Bikram method and other hot styles of yoga. She loves hiking, biking and has a great love for travel and experiencing new things. Emilia enjoys playing traditional and mixed chamber music and hopes to continue her professional career with work in the orchestral field in both the United States and abroad.