Emily earned her Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in Piano Performance, and her Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Louisiana State University. She completed additional studies in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darnstellende Kunst Wien, where she studied conducting, piano, and accompanying. She is currently completing her post-graduate work in Orchestral Conducting at the Manhattan School of Music with George Manahan.
Having lived all over the US, she is happy to call New York her home.