Emily Wright | Strings Magazine | For players of violin, viola, cello, bass & fiddle

Emily Wright is a NYC metro-based cellist, teacher, and founder of Tamarack Arts, an organization dedicated to the development of adult amateur string players.

Favorite Album: Radiohead's Kid A or Django Reinhardt's An Introduction to Guitar Genius

Favorite Song to Play: French or Russian string quartets

Instrument of my Dreams: Henri, my 1938 Apparût cello

Articles by Emily Wright

Vulnerability Can Be a Key Teaching Tool—If You’re Willing to Go There

Showing students the stages leading up to competence lets them know that their experience is not an aberration; that they are on the same road we, too, are on.

For the Better: Lockdown Has Helped Me Re-evaluate My Own Development as a Cellist and Teacher

Teaching online can feel impersonal in comparison, but 2020 has offered me the space to re-evaluate the way I approach my own musical and teaching life.

Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop, photo by David Van Zandt

Trade Terminology: A Quick Guide to Some Major Lutherie Affiliations and Awards

Here’s a primer describing some of the relevant bonafides you might run into the next time you’re exploring the works of modern violin makers.