Emily Rideout

Emily Rideout enjoys an active performing career on both modern and Baroque viola. She was twice winner of the Boston University Bach Competition, and has appeared as a guest with the Muir, Emerson, and Avalon String Quartets.  She appears regularly with ensembles such as Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, A Far Cry, and 2019 Grammy Award-winning orchestra Boston Modern Orchestra Project. 

Emily is increasingly in demand as a specialist in period-instrument performance.  She’s been heard with Lyra Baroque Orchestra (MN); Mercury Orchestra (TX); and has served as principal viola at the Academy of the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, and at the Tafelmusik Winter Institute (Toronto). She has been a featured soloist in concertos of Bach, Telemann, and Mozart, and is a founding member of the trio Folk Baroque.

Emily is also an avid folk musician, appearing as fiddle player in the bands Three Tall Pines and Fort Point Ramblers. She is an active teacher/lecturer, specializing on topics from Baroque performance practice to Suzuki Method. She holds a Doctorate from Boston University and degrees from Stony Brook University and Moravian College.