Teaching Bio

Emily Hale cultivates an active musical career as both an educator and performer on violin and viola. Fueled by a sense of curiosity and discovery, she has taught Suzuki Method and traditional private lessons and group classes, coached chamber music and orchestral sectionals in each place she has called home – New York State, Pennsylvania, London (UK), Connecticut and Greater Boston. Over the past twenty years Emily has enjoyed working with hundreds of students ages 3 to university music majors, to brand new older beginners; affirming that every child — and adult – can learn to play an instrument. A few institutions Emily has taught at include the State College Suzuki Program, Elizabethtown College Summer Music Camp, Royal College of Music Junior Department (London, UK), Montessori School of Greater Hartford, CREC International Magnet School (Hartford, CT), Suzuki Talent Education Partnership (Springfield, MA), South Shore Conservatory, Dexter Southfield and Bridgewater State University. Currently, Emily teaches violin and viola at NEC Prep’s Suzuki program, in Boston Public Schools with the Boston Music Project, and her private studio. 

Emily performs orchestral and chamber music, and opera, on both period and modern instruments with a kaleidoscope of ensembles specializing in music from the 17th century, to music being imagined and composed as you read this. Around Boston she regularly collaborates with Arpeggione Ensemble and the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, and performs at venues including Jordan Hall, Sanders Theater and the Shalin Liu Performance Center. She has performed with The Sebastians, Teatro Nuovo and Four Nations Ensemble in New York, at the Royal Festival Hall with Florilegium, in the London Handel Festival and Valletta International Baroque Music Festival. Other opera and choral performances range from San Diego’s Opera Neo to Miami’s GRAMMY-nominated vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire. Emily’s recording credits include performing with the Early Opera Company on BBC Channel 4, and serving as assistant producer for Ensemble Origo’s newest album (2026). 

Sparked by her musical curiosity, Emily earned degrees in Violin Performance from Houghton College (BMus) and Penn State University (MMus), and an MPerf in Historical Performance from the Royal College of Music in London, winning the McKenna Prize for Baroque Music. Her Suzuki pedagogy training has included courses with Susan Baer, Ed Sprunger, Carol Sykes, Martha Shackford, Ann Montska-Smesler and James Hutchins. She has been influenced by the work of Paul Rolland, Mimi Zweig and many others including her own students and past teachers. 

Since beginning to learn violin through the Suzuki Method around age 5, two of Emily’s favorite ways to spend her time are still making things, and playing with her friends. Emily loves sharing music not only through teaching, but through creating inventive, interdisciplinary events that connect people, places and ideas through music. Her inventive baroque music workshops and concert events for children offer new audiences a friendly introduction to music of the past, at schools and libraries. Her program “Wild Things” -- featuring music for violin and theorbo, and classic children’s books by Sandra Boynton and Maurice Sendak -- was recently presented at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Public Library’s main Copley branch, with support from the Cambridge Society for Early Music.