Emerson Millar

Emerson Millar began her tenure as the Seattle Symphony’s Second Assistant Concertmaster in the 2022/2023 season. Before this, she served as the Co-Concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic in Naples, Florida, from 2018 to 2022. Millar attended the New World Symphony and is a graduate of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. As an orchestral musician, Millar has appeared as guest Concertmaster with the Nashville Symphony and she served as the Concertmaster of the New World Symphony, the Debut Orchestra of the Young Musicians Foundation and as the Associate Concertmaster of the American Youth Symphony. A recipient of the New Horizons Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, she performed as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Aspen Festival Orchestra in the summer of 2015. She has been a participant at the Verbier Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 as Concertmaster with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting. In 2018, as a winner of the New World Symphony Concerto Competition, she performed Barber’s Violin Concerto with conductor Edwin Outwater. Originally from Ithaca, New York, Millar grew up on a 100-acre organic farm. She currently plays on a French violin made in 1897 by H.C. Silvestre.