Emma Roijackers

Emma started her violin lessons with Evert Sillem and continued her studies at the junior department at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Lex Korff de Gidts. Emma continued her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam under Prof. Ilya Grubert and graduated with the highest mark “10”. Emma received full funding from the Netherlands to continue her studies with Lukas Hagen in Salzburg where she finished her post-graduate diploma in 2020. Additional inspiration has come from lessons and masterclasses by world famous violinists and musicians such as Christoph Poppen, Leonidas Kavakos, Gerhard Schultz, Schlomo Mintz, Schmuel Ashkenasi, Zakhar Bron, Ray Chen and Jaap van Zweden.

Emma has established herself as an active chamber musician, soloist and orchestral player, performing in the best halls of The Netherlands including The Concertgebouw (broadcast live on national radio) and all over Europe. Emma has collaborated with some of Holland’s most famous musicians including Maria Milstein, Lisa Jacobs and Caspar Vos. She has also been invited to play at several renowned international chamber music festivals, such as the International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht in Holland, the Francigena International Arts Festival and the Festival Internazionale di Musica (Portogruaro) in Italy and the Festival Internacional De Música De Marvão (Portugal). Other recent highlights include premiering Sebastian Fagerlund’s String Trio at a sold out Concertgebouw.

Emma has received a number of awards including the 2nd prize, the audience prize and prize for best performance of the commissioned piece at the Oskar Back competition 2022, the first prize at the 2021 International Competition “Luigi Zanuccoli” (Italy), the third prize at the international Emmanuel Durlet competition (Belgium), the Laberté Hoedemaker Prize (Netherlands, 2013) and she received numerous prizes at the National Prinses Chrsitina Competition (Netherlands).