Emily earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at Roosevelt University, studying with MingHuan Xu. She went on to complete her Master of Music degree at CCPA, where she was awarded the Large Ensembles Scholarship. She later earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, receiving the Concertmaster Fellowship while studying with Joseph Genualdi. Throughout her studies, Emily has been awarded scholarships to prestigious programs, including the Heartland Chamber Music Festival as a Festival Scholar, the International Music Academy in Cremona, Italy, the Euro Arts Festival in Halle, Germany, and the Duo Sonata Masterclass Series at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. 

In recent years, Emily has been featured on Kansas Public Radio and the Kansas City label Mother Russia Industries. She has worked closely with renowned composers such as Chen Yi and Steven Bryant. In 2018, following a collaboration with Chen Yi, Emily gave the world premiere of a new version of Yi’s Violin Concerto Chinese Folk Dance Suite. In 2022, she premiered Steven Bryant’s multimedia work The Treachery of Sounds with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME). She has also been a frequent performer with PNME on both violin and viola and has collaborated with members of the Grossman Ensemble. Most recently, as part of the Guarneri Hall 2023–2024 season, she performed alongside Scott Yoo of PBS’s Now Hear This.

In addition to her performance career, Emily has been a faculty member at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and the Atlanta Music Project (AMP). She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.