Emily Rideout is an active performer on both modern and Baroque viola. Her love for Baroque music is rooted in her ongoing study of the Bach Cello Suites, which she has shared with audiences in over 15 states and Canadian provinces. These performances culminated in her being awarded, in two consecutive years, the Viola Prize of the Boston University Bach Competition, and in a subsequent invitation to perform solo Bach live on Boston radio station WBUR, and also a featured young artist at the Boston Symphony Orchestra Open House at Symphony Hall.

Ms. Rideout’s projects in historical performance have included recording a period-instrument soundtrack for the PBS documentary "Seeing in the Dark,” lecturing on the role of the viola in Bach’s cantatas, and a recent tour of Japan with Cambridge Concentus and Joshua Rifkin. Ms. Rideout performs regularly with professional period-instrument ensembles including Lyra Baroque Orchestra (MN), Cambridge Concentus, L’Academie, Exsultemus, La Donna Musicale, Saltarello, and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra; she has collaborated with renowned Baroque musicians including Julianne Baird, Arthur Haas, Dawn Upshaw, Robert Mealy, Martin Pearlman, Geoffrey Burgess, Wilbert Hazelzet, and Jacques Ogg.

Ms. Rideout also performs on modern viola, and has collaborated with the Emerson, Muir, and Avalon string quartets. She is a registered Suzuki instructor, and has served as a guest clinician across the United States. Emily is also an enthusiastic folk musician, having appeared as fiddle player in the band Three Tall Pines, with whom she recently completed an album of original music. She holds a doctorate from Boston University, and degrees from Moravian College and Stony Brook University.