Violinist Emma Burge is an avid supporter of contemporary and improvised music, seeking to combine her classical training with improvisation and her own compositions. She is the founder of the new music ensemble Alinéa, formed at the New England Conservatory, which recently gave the U.S. premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Quaderno di Strada. Emma has premiered twenty new chamber works in the past two years, including Arturo O’Farrill’s Tiny Little Walls. Other notable recent performances for Emma were with artist Heather Maloney on her new album Soil in the Sky, and performing with Tyshawn Sorey and Yeesun Kim in Jordan Hall. In Boston, Emma is a member of the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, Fermata, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and frequently plays with the Coda Ensemble.

Emma has performed at a chamber musician and soloist at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati Symphony Hall, Northern Kentucky Greaves Hall, The William Taft Theater, Ithaca College Hockett Recital Hall, The Oberon, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Bowdoin College, Orford Music Center, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and the Meadowmount School of Music.  She has played in master classes with Merry Peckham, Max Levinson, Pei-shan Lee, Robin Scott, Helen Grime, Tyshawn Sorey, Michael Finnissy, Steve Drury, John Heiss, Donald Palma, Nathan Cole, Helen Pohl, Gerardo Ribeiro, Steve Rochen, and the Cavani Quartet. Emma just completed her bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory with Ayano Ninomiya.