Emilia Jarocke

Polish violinist Emilia Jarocka (b. 1998) began her musical education at the age of seven at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski School of Music in Bialystok, later studying at the Zenon Brzewski School of Music in Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music with Professor Andrzej Gębski. In 2025, she completed her Solo Master’s degree at the Zurich University of the Arts under the guidance of Professor Alexander Sitkovetsky.

As a soloist, Emilia has performed with orchestras such as Sinfonia Varsovia, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Podlasie Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a laureate of international competitions, receiving amon others, 1st Prize at the Georg Philipp Telemann International Violin Competition and 4th Prize at the Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin.

In the 2022/2023 season, she served as concertmaster of the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, performing at major Polish venues including the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio and the Warsaw Philharmonic. In the 2025/2026 season she was admitted to the prestigious Concertmaster Programme at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona.  There she had the opportunity to work with European Concertmasters such as Noah Bendix-Balgley (Berliner Philharmoniker), Andrea Obiso (Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Sarah Nemtanu (Orchestre de Paris), Jiyoon Lee (Staatskapelle Berlin), Laura Marzadori (Teatro alla Scala), Roman Simovic (London Symphony Orchestra), Vesko Eschkenazy (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra).

An avid chamber musican, Emilia performs regularly in a variety of ensembles. In 2021, she recorded Leonard Bernstein’s Piano Trio for the album Interwar Retrospections (Sarton Records). As a member of both a piano quartet and a string trio she has received awards including 3rd Prize at the 9th International Chamber Music Competition Johannes Brahms in Gdańsk and 1st Prize at the Kiwanis Competition in Zurich.