Emily Liu, 19, a San Francisco native, is currently pursuing her Bachelor Degree of Music in viola performance at the Juilliard School, studying with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory. She has previously studied with Jodi Levitz at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. Emily has played with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, where she was the principal violist in the 2013-2014 season. Emily joined the Young Chamber Musicians Program in the fall of 2012 where she performed and participated in master classes with the Borromeo Quartet and the Miro Quartet. In March 2012, she had the opportunity to perform the Mendelssohn Octet with the Borromeo Quartet using Mac laptops, reading off the manuscript. In March 2013, Emily won 3rd place in the Northern California Viola Society Competition and also won “Best Performance” of the new commissioned work “Fluttertude” composed by Kurt Rohde. In May 2013, she won 2nd place in the Chinese Music Teacher Association of Northern California competition. In past summers, she has attended Music@Menlo and the Aspen Music Festival, where she was the assistant viola principal of the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summer of 2015, she attended the Yellow Barn Young Performers Program in Putney, Vermont and also had the opportunity to be a fellow at the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Music Workshop in Aptos, California. This winter, she will be participating in Juilliard’s annual ChamberFest - an intensive two-week chamber music program.