Emily Hanna Crane enjoys a dynamic career as a performer and educator. She is the Professor of Music, teaching violin, viola, and chamber music, and is the Coordinator of the Orchestra Strings Area at Austin Peay State University. A founding member of Clarksville’s Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Emily serves as co-concertmaster and can be heard on GCO's second commercial recording, Chamber Symphonies, which was released by Summit Records in May 2012. In addition to the GCO, Emily is principal second violin of the Paducah (Ky.) Symphony Orchestra, and has played in the violin sections of several orchestras including the Nashville, Nashville Opera and Ballet, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras. Emily has given solo and chamber concerts across the U. S., Canada, Taiwan, and several countries across Europe. She has been the featured concerto soloist with the Gateway Chamber, Parthenon Chamber, Valley Symphony Orchestras, among others. As a chamber musician, she has been as a member of Intersection, the Hanna-Yang Duo, Tango Sur (Fla.), and the Eppes Quartet (FSU). Emily has premiered several works by living composers including Jeffrey Wood (Sonata for violin and piano, 2013), Clifton Callender (Metamorphoses II, 2009, on Pendulum, Navona Records, Parma Recordings), and Ju-Hwan Yu (Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, 2004, Kum-Seong Records). She is an active Nashville studio musician performing on numerous film and video game soundtracks.