Emma Meinrenken, 20, Canada, performing John Corigliano's Red Violin Caprices at the Menuhin Competition #Richmond2021 Senior Semi-Finals.
Emma Meinrenken is a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Annual Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Ida Kavafian. Emma has won many awards, including 1st place at the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the Silver Medal at the Stulberg International Competition. She was the 2019 Prix Ravel winner at the Ecole d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. Emma debuted with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten and has since performed with many other orchestras. She recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall. Emma plays the 1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius violin, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1983, the Menuhin Competition is the world's leading international competition for young violinists. The Competition attracts hundreds of entries from countries across the globe, choosing only 44 of the world’s very best young violinists to participate. Held every two years in a different world city the Competition discovers, encourages and nurtures exceptionally talented young musicians from all corners of the world under the age of 22 years to develop into the next generation of great artists.
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