Emily Tong

Biography

Emily Tong is a 22-year-old pianist and conductor based in New York City. With a passion for collaboration, Emily strives to explore the wide range of music repertory with other artists and share these discoveries with greater audiences. Her goal is to inspire conversation from her audiences and arouse feelings and emotions that transcend the hustle and bustle of daily life.

Emily is classically trained, and has performed in various prestigious venues, from Carnegie Hall to the Wiener Musikverein. Emily has performed as a soloist with the MSM Lab Orchestra, Round Top Texas Festival Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony Orchestra and as a member of the Texas Festival Orchestra and the New York Youth Symphony. She has worked with conductors such as Andrew Kim, Robert Spano, and Edwin Outwater, and collaborated with renowned soloists such as Carol Wincenc. Emily has participated in multiple music festivals such as the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Round Top Summer Music Festival.

Awards Emily has received include the Dina Koston Young Artists Fellowship from the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, the First Prize from the Westchester Music Teachers Association Competition, and winner of the Third Street Music School Concerto Competition.

Emily is currently pursuing graduate studies in Classical Piano at the Manhattan School of Music under Daniel Epstein and Wael Farouk. She studies conducting as a part of the New York Youth Symphony Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting Program under Andrew J. Kim.