Emma Meinrenken
Canada
Emma Carina Meinrenken, age 13, is a scholarship student
ofAtis Bankas in the Young Artist Performance Academy of the Royal Conservatory
of Music in Canada. Since she started playing the violin at the age of4, Emma
has won top awards in many competitions, including 1st place in the
Canadian Music Competitions (CMC) for four consecutive years. She is the Grand
Prize winner of the CMC National Finals in 2012 and is also a three-time winner
of the Sid Oue Memorial Scholarship for ‘Most Promising Student. , At age 10,
Emma made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has since
performed as a soloist with many other professional orchestras across the
province and in Montreal. Most recently, Emma was awarded the Jury’s Prize at
the 4th International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania. Emma has,
in the past, performed in master classes with some of the most well known world
class violinists including Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Jennifer Koh and
Victor Danchenko. Emma plays on the Jamieson-Ivey Amati violin from 1670, on
loan from Royal Conservatory of Music.