Emily Taubl has been praised for playing of “sheer poetry” (Rutland Herald) and described by the Hartford Courant as “an outstanding cellist.” She serves as Principal Cellist of the Springfield Symphony (MA) and is on the faculty of the University of Vermont and Middlebury College.

Emily is the director of the Conservatory Audition Workshop, an annual summer program she founded to prepare top string students from around the world for auditions at leading music schools. In 2024, the program partnered with the New England Conservatory as part of its summer programming at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.

A dedicated chamber musician, Emily is the cellist of the Champlain Trio, with whom she tours throughout New England presenting innovative programs that highlight both traditional repertoire and underrepresented works. The trio has received a Vermont Arts Council Grant, filmed a documentary for Vermont PBS, and recently completed its second recording project.

As a soloist, Emily has appeared at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles and on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude Concert Series. She has been featured on Vermont Public Radio and Boston’s WGBH, including The Colors of Claude Debussy: A 150th Birthday Celebration, which was broadcast internationally. As a concerto soloist, she has performed with the Hartford Symphony, Boston Virtuosi, New England String Ensemble, Nashua Chamber Orchestra, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Granite State Symphony, Vermont Philharmonic, and the University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her orchestral collaborations include performances and recordings with the New Haven Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and most recently the Montreal Symphony on an album of Strauss and Mahler released in March 2024 on Pentatone.

Emily’s teaching career includes positions at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, as well as faculty roles at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Lyra Music Festival, and the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival. She also shares her expertise through writing, with articles on audition preparation and pedagogy featured in Strings Magazine.

Emily holds degrees from The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and New England Conservatory, where her primary teachers were Paul Katz, Aldo Parisot, and Ardyth Alton. She lives in Shelburne, Vermont, with her husband, John, and their daughter, Lily.