Biography
Born in southeastern Wisconsin, Emily Hagee began playing horn at the age of ten. While living in the Midwest, she developed a love of orchestral horn playing and has performed with many orchestras around the country. She earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM '11) and the University of Southern California (MM '13). Currently she lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
For the past five summers, Emily has been a member of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre company in Logan, UT. In the summer of 2013, she was in the pit orchestra for the Ohio Light Opera Company. Her other festival activities include the Atlantic Music Festival (2012 orchestral fellow), the Music Academy of the West and the Aspen Music Festival (2010 brass quintet fellow). As an orchestral musician, she has held positions with the Boise Philharmonic and the Fayetteville Symphony. She has also appeared with the North Carolina Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, the Glens Falls Symphony, the Cape Ann Symphony, the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, the American Youth Symphony and the Orquesta de Baja (Tijuana, MX). She has been a private horn instructor for fifteen years and a private piano instructor for ten years.
Emily’s other interests include hiking with her husband, reading, and baking.