Emmanuella Reiter has built a wide-ranging career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher.

A committed chamber musician, she has been a member of prizewinning string quartets and has performed with artists including Frans Helmerson, Roger Tapping, Ida Haendel, Peter Frankl, Marie-Pierre Langlamet and Jean Sulem.

As a concerto soloist, she has appeared with orchestras in England, Italy, France and the USA. Her recordings include releases on Centaur, Arsis, Hessischer Rundfunk, Jigsaw Live and Terezin Music Anthology, and she has been featured on Boston’s WGBH classical music radio.

In 2008, she founded the Jigsaw Players’ Concert Series, presenting chamber music, jazz concerts, and educational projects in Wimbledon and across the borough of Merton.

Alongside this, she has performed with many of London’s major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, English National Opera, English Chamber Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. After more than eight years as a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, she joined the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2017.

Teaching forms an important part of her work. She served as Teaching Assistant to Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory in Boston for over three years, and later held positions at Birmingham Conservatoire and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She has also been a guest at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and has given masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. She is currently teaching at Harrodian.

Her work as a pedagogue led to the publication of her book Karen Tuttle’s Heritage: the Theory and Practice of Co-ordination, exploring approaches to expression, gesture, sonority, and injury prevention in viola playing.

Born into a family of musicians, Emmanuella began her studies with her father before continuing at the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice. She later studied at the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston with Kim Kashkashian, where she received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.