Emmalena Huning

Emmalena Huning, from Perth, Australia, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2023 and studies violin with Benjamin Beilman and Erin Keefe. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Huning is the Yvonne Druian Fellow.

Praised for her “distinct voice” (The West Australian) and “emotional delivery” (Radio New Zealand), Ms. Huning earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with György Pauk and Jack Liebeck.

Over the years, Ms. Huning has had success in many national and international competitions. She was a prize winner and placer holder at the John Curro National Youth Concerto Competition, Kendall National Violin Competition, and Osaka International Music Competition, and was the youngest semi-finalist at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition. In 2022, she was awarded the prize for the Australian Musician of Promise at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition and has since been engaged in multiple concerts at the League.

As an orchestral player, Ms. Huning has been the concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra, Western Australian Youth Orchestra, and most recently, the Tanglewood Music Festival Orchestra. She is currently concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and associate concertmaster of Symphony in C and has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors like Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andris Nelsons, Dima Slobodeniouk, Semyon Bychkov, Alan Gilbert, Trevor Pinnock, John Wilson, and Sir Mark Elder.

Ms. Huning is an awardee supported by the Australian Music Foundation as the AMF Nora Goodridge Developing Artist.