Emily Schaefer is currently a member of the Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet (Plaza Winds) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  In 2018 she was appointed to 4th horn with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.  Emily has had the privilege of performing with numerous other orchestras, including the Omaha Symphony, Topeka Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. While living in New York City, she served as principal horn in the Off-Broadway production of A Little Night Music.  In 2018, the Maverick Concert Series in Woodstock, New York featured a concert celebrating the 100th Birthday of Leonard Bernstein and Emily was privileged to performed in the orchestra for this historic event on Bernstein’s actual birthdate.  She will be a resident artist for the summer of 2019 at Caroga Lake Music Festival in Caroga Lake, NY.  Her summer activities have included the National Orchestral Institute, Festival Napa Valley, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, Le Domaine Forget, Eastern Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and New York University Woodwind and Brass Chamber Music Workshops.

 

Emily has had extensive experience teaching students spanning a wide range of ages and skills.  While an undergraduate at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she held the position of horn teacher at The University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Throughout her studies at The Juilliard School, she taught and coached exceptionally talented high school students in The Juilliard Pre-College Orchestras as the Horn Mentor.  Emily is currently serving as the horn teacher and coach at numerous middle schools and high schools within the Blue Valley School District in Overland Park, Kansas. She was appointed Interim Adjunct Professor of Horn at Bethel College for the Fall 2018 semester and is currently completing her second year as the Horn Studio Teaching Assistant at UMKC.  She maintains her own studio of private students ranging from beginners to college age.  Beginning Fall 2019 she will begin as the Assistant Teaching Professor of horn at East Carolina University in Greenville NC.  

 

Emily has completed her doctorate at the University of Missouri, Kansas City in May of 2019, where she studied with Martin Hackleman. She holds degrees in horn performance from The Juilliard School (Master’s Degree) and Cleveland Institute of Music (Bachelor’s Degree).  Emily has been very fortunate to have studied previously with outstanding teachers including Karen Schubert of the Opera Philadelphia, Richard King of The Cleveland Orchestra, and Erik Ralske of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.