Birchwood Jaguar 107 LIVE! With 2016 WMC Scholarship Winner Emily Rekrut-Pressey

Monday morning host Michael Wolch welcomed the 18-year-old violist live in studio. Missed it? Watch it here!

Emily Rekrut-PresseyCurrently studying at the University of Toronto, Emily began violin lessons in the Suzuki program with Laurel Howard at the age of 6. When she was ten she was inspired by Laurel and Joanne Martin to begin playing the viola. For the past 3 years she's been studying with the WSO's Daniel Scholz.

This summer Emily played with l’Orchestre de la Francophonie in Montreal and attended the international Morningside Music Bridge program in Calgary the previous two summers, as well as the Rosamunde Summer Music Academy here in Winnipeg. She now studies with Teng Li, principal violist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Emily recently won the Aikins Memorial trophy at this year’s Winnipeg Music Festival and received the Berythe Birse Scholarship through the Women’s Musical Club scholarship competition this May.

On Thursday December 29th, all 5 winners of this year's WMC scholarships will be performing in a special recital at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The concert begins at 7PM. For more information and tickets, go HERE.

On Friday afternoon we welcomed the top prize WMC scholarship winner Gregory Lewis to the Classic 107 studio. If you missed the young violinist, watch here!

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