Emily Mantone

Emily Mantone, a cellist from Mount Sinai NY, recently completed her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School. She previously completed her Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Timothy Eddy. Currently, Mantone is pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Yale School of Music, studying with Paul Watkins, former cellist of the esteemed Emerson String Quartet. 

Mantone has served as principal cellist of both The Juilliard Orchestra and the Yale Philharmonia under the baton of such conductors as Tan Dun, Alan Gilbert, Barbara Hannigan, Peter Oundjian, David Robertson, and Gerard Schwarz. She has also been a member of the Axiom contemporary ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and participated in Juilliard Chamberfest. She has previously served as principal cellist of the Handel Festival Orchestra, based in New York City, and was a Fellow of the Apex Ensemble, based in Montclair, New Jersey, under the baton of Music Director David Chan. 

Mantone has spent summers as a member of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville OR led by former Music Director Teddy Abrams, the Aspen Music Festival, where she served as principal cellist of the Aspen Opera Orchestra, The National Orchestral Institute + Festival at the University of Maryland, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellow. Mantone is a former principal cellist of the New York Youth Symphony, and is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College, where she was a student of Marion Feldman.