Emily Boyer, horn player, is an active performer and teaching artist based in Connecticut. Striving to cultivate relationships through music, she pursues chamber music, orchestral performance, private teaching, and classroom teaching.

Emily is a founding member of the horn and harp duo Apple Orange Pair. This ensemble is dedicated to performing and expanding the horn and harp repertoire through commissioning new works from established and emerging composers, bringing older works back to the performance repertoire, and transcribing existing music. She also performs as a member of the New Haven-based brass quintet, Brass, who celebrated their twentieth anniversary season in 2019-2020. Emily maintains a freelance career where she performs regularly in orchestras and chamber groups in Connecticut and New York.

At University of Rhode Island, Department of Music, Emily is the Artist/Teacher in Horn. Students at URI major in music to earn a Bachelor of Music specializing in Composition, Music Education, Music Therapy, or Performance. Graduate students can earn a Master of Music in Music Education or Performance.

At Connecticut College, Emily is the adjunct Instructor of Horn, teaching private lessons and directing the horn ensemble. For horn students immersed in the liberal arts, her teaching goals are to understand the horn and horn music in cultural context, equip technical facility that enables playing in diverse styles and situations, and foster the joy of performing for listeners.

At Sacred Heart University, Emily the adjunct Instructor of Horn, teaching private lessons and directing the horn ensemble.

Emily is an instructor at Connecticut State Community College. At CT State Naugatuck Valley she teaches Music History and Appreciation. Serving students from a variety of backgrounds, her music history course draws connections between music from the past and present, and features an emphasis on listening analysis and live performances in class. At CT State Middlesex, Emily teaches Fundamentals of Music, which builds skills for reading and analyzing music notation to deepen listening and enable music composition.

Emily previously taught at Educational Center for the Arts (ACES) in New Haven. She was an instructor of Brass Studio, Small Ensembles, Music Theory, and Listening in Cultural Context. Students at this public, half-time, regional arts magnet high school come from many school districts to study and develop as artists under the guidance of professionals in their fields. The music program highlights performance and composition as essential skills for every student musician.

In addition to classroom instruction, Emily maintains a private teaching studio, offering individualized mentoring for advancing on the horn and developing as a musician. She is experienced with students ranging from elementary age through adults. Students have earned positions in Connecticut regional, all-state, and national ensembles, and perform regularly in studio recitals.

Emily (Engle) grew up on a cherry farm in northern Michigan. The kitchen radio was always tuned to the local public radio station, and she attributes becoming a musician to an early immersion in the sounds and stories of classical music. Emily graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and her Master of Music degree from Yale University School of Music.  She has performed in the Banff, Aspen, Atlantic, and Institut Musical de Provence-Aubagne Music Festivals.  Her primary horn teachers include Julie Schleif, Peter Landgren, William Purvis, and Denise Tryon.

You are invited to contact Emily for further information.