Emi Ohi Resnick – Violin
A native of New York City, Emi Ohi Resnick made her debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of fifteen and has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan since then.
Recently, Carolin Bietzker of the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” praised her with the headline “Interpretation on a World-Class Level”. Critic James Connely described her playing as, “Outstanding. Ms Resnick’s handling of the cerebral music of the Brahms concerto was mature, sensitive and spellbinding”.
Ms Resnick has collaborated as soloist and chamber musician with prominent artists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Frans Brüggen, Gary Graffman, Ton Koopman, Siegfried Palm, and Thomas Riebl. Of a recital given with Dennis Russell Davies, Hans Schurmann of the “General-Anzeiger” of Bonn wrote, “She has a quasi-devilish mastery as well as tonal beauty… A masterful, accomplished duo presentation.”
Ms Resnick has had numerous works written for her and performs regularly in various chamber music groups, including the Blaeu String Quartet, Ruysdael String Quartet, Kaleidos, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Context Ensemble (with Sergiu Luca), Nieuw Ensemble and the contemporary music group Moebius, currently Ensemble-in-Residence at Columbia University in New York City.
Ms Resnick studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Szymon Goldberg, the Juilliard School with Louise Behrend and Robert Mann, the Prague Mozart Academy with Sŕndor Végh, and Salzburg’s Mozarteum with Thomas Riebl and Ruggiero Ricci, and has worked closely with the composer György Kurtŕg.
She is regularly invited to the Marlboro Music Festival and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England.
Ms Resnick currently divides her time between the United States and Europe, where she was concertmaster of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, principal viola of Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Professor of Violin at the North Netherlands Conservatory.