Emily Rideout enjoys an active performing career on both modern and Baroque viola, and is deeply invested in her roles as an educator, working with string players from beginner through college level.

As a soloist, Emily was twice winner of the Boston University Bach Competition, and has appeared as guest violist with the Muir, Emerson, and Avalon String Quartets.  She performs with orchestras ranging from period-instrument groups Boston Baroque and the Handel and Haydn Society, to the Grammy-nominated ensembles Boston Modern Orchestra Project and A Far Cry.  She has recently been heard with Boston Lyric Opera and Emmanuel Music, and has appeared in major concert halls including Boston’s Symphony Hall, Osaka Hall in Japan and Carnegie Hall in New York.

As a Baroque violist, Emily’s recent projects have included a tour of Japan with Cambridge Concentus and Joshua Rifkin, and recording a soundtrack for the PBS documentary "Seeing in the Dark.”  In April 2015, she toured Poland with Boston Baroque, giving the group’s first performance in the newly opened Polish National Radio Symphony Hall.  She has been featured as a soloist performing unaccompanied Bach on NPR station WBUR.

Dr. Rideout is in demand as a teacher and lecturer, and has extensive pedagogy training, at the graduate level and from Suzuki Method institutes around the country.  She is a registered Suzuki instructor (ECC and Violin Units 1-10), and is past president of the Suzuki Association of Massachusetts. She was invited to speak at the 2012 National Suzuki Conference in Minneapolis, and is a frequent lecturer on pedagogy topics including the intersection of period performance and string teaching.  Emily is also an enthusiastic folk musician, having appeared as fiddle player in the bands Fort Point Ramblers and Three Tall Pines, whose recent album of original music drew critical acclaim.   Ms. Rideout holds a Doctorate in viola performance from Boston University, and degrees from Stony Brook University and Moravian College.