EMILY APONTE

New Music Ensemble | Principal Horn | AUGUST 2024 - Current Position. 

University Philharmonic Orchestra | Principal Horn | AUGUST 2024 - Current Position. 

Mizzou Horn Choir | Principal Horn | AUGUST 2024 - Current Position.

Washington Adventist University | BM 

Takoma Park, MD | 2020 - 2024

• Prof. Larry Williams, Yamaha Performing Artist (Horn).

University of Missouri | MM - Graduate Assistantship 

Columbia, MO | 2024 - Current. 

• Prof. Amanda Collins, Assistant Professor of Horn.

January Lift Award | Lift Music Found - JANUARY 2022 

WAU Music Competition Winners | Honors Mentioned - APRIL 2022

Salzburg Festival | National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela - AUGUST 2013, AUSTRIA

• 4th Horn
• Conductors: Simon Rattle and Cristoph Koncz
• In 2013 Salzburger Festspiele invited more than 1300 musicians from the El Sistema program, from Venezuela, to take over the festival and present the infectious joy of their music-making in 14 different concerts, transporting the fascinating vision of El Sistema to Salzburg.

National Take a Stand Festival - Los Angeles Philharmonic | AUGUST 2018 - LOS ANGELES

• 1st Horn
• Conductors: Gustavo Dudamel and Michael Morgan
• The National Take a Stand Festival (NTASF) is a seven-day orchestra festival that brings together young musicians from El Sistema-inspired programs nationwide, providing them with world-class music instruction and mentorship

Horn Hangouts | Sarah Willis's Masterclass  

FEBRUARY 2020 - NEW WORLD SYMPHONY, FLORIDA

International Women's Brass Conference | Chromatic Brass Collective  

MAY 2022 - DENTON, TEXAS

• Conductors: Marie Speziale and Velvet Brown
• The Chromatic Brass Collective, founded by black women, is an organization for brass musicians that celebrates, performs, mentors and educates in an effort to increase the visibility of racially and ethnically underrepresented women and gender non-conforming people throughout the brass world.