Biography

Emily Scicchitano-Kim is a Boston-based violinist whose approach to music-making revolves around emotional expressivity and the exploration of sound. She just completed her master’s degree in Violin Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, studying with Markus Placci. Before that, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance from Ithaca College under the mentorship of Calvin Wiersma.

 

Emily’s musical journey, which places an emphasis on ensemble performance, has been filled with many diverse and gratifying experiences. Her dedicated and sensitive approach to violin has led her to play with ensembles across the country. Before moving to Boston, she served as the concertmaster of the Buffalo Community Orchestra in Buffalo, Minnesota for two years, and also as a season-long substitute of the Sioux City Symphony in Sioux City, Iowa. She is currently a substitute violinist with the Vista Philharmonic Orchestra in Groton, MA. 

 

In addition to her orchestral experience, Emily is also an active chamber musician. After recently performing monumental works such as Messiaen’s Quartet For the End of Time and Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, Emily is now playing with the Venus Quartet, an all-women string quartet who won the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Honors Chamber Ensemble Competition for the 2024-2025 school year. In July, the Venus Quartet attended the Dalí Quartet International Music Festival where they worked intensely on Britten's second string quartet and Haydn's Op. 33 No. 1, having daily coachings with members of the Dalí Quartet. 

 

Lastly, Emily has a great interest in exploring and performing contemporary and new music. She has performed in concerts with Boston Conservatory’s contemporary chamber ensemble, contraBAND, participated in initiatives such as Contrapunkt and Un/pitched in Ithaca, NY, and given world premieres in both solo and orchestral settings throughout her life. Most recently, she premiered a string octet as part of the United Nations General Assembly Concert, which was performed at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. 

 

Alongside Emily’s performance career, she is also a passionate educator whose goal is to share her love of music with others through teaching. She has maintained her own private violin and viola studio for over nine years, and is starting a teaching residency at the Nantucket Community Music Center this Fall. She has also taught private lessons at Kramer’s School of Music in Plymouth, Minnesota.

 

Emily is immensely grateful to be playing on a 2024 Benjamin Ruth violin.