Emilia Goch Salvador

Emilia Goch Salvador, in 2005, graduated with honors from the Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznań in Prof. Dominik Rutowski's viola class. She has received multiple scholarships of the President of the City of Szczecin, as well as the West Pomeranian Voivodship Marshal's award for the best higher education graduation diploma in the musical arts category. In 2008, she founded the chamber string orchestra–Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, which she has led up to this day. She is also the chairman of the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra Association–one of the most dynamically functioning non-governmental cultural organisations in Poland. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has worked with such artists as: Bartłomiej Nizioł, Vasko Vassilev, Marcelo Nisinman, Carmine Lauri, Tomasz Daroch, Tomasz Tomaszewski, Sandor Javorkai, Bartosz Bryła, Kevin Kenner, Roman Jabłoński, Maria Machowska. In 2005-2018, she worked with numerous bands and orchestras, such as: Deutsche Oper Solisten, Covent Garden Soloists, Covent Garden Opera House, Symphony Orchestra of India, V4-Visegrad quartet and Prussian Chamber Orchestra. With these groups, she performed in prestigious concert halls, among all else in India, Norway, Estonia, Germany, Denmark, Czechia, Greece, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines. In 2012- 2015, she worked with the Sadler's Wells theatre in London, where she took part, as a chamber musician, in two international productions Sutra and Orbo Novo. In 2016, together with Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, she participated in a prestigious tour in the Southeast Asia countries – the TOYOTA CLASSICS TOUR. She recorded numerous albums with the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and Baltic Neopolis Quartet. In 2017, along with the new chamber music group Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi she took part in a concert tour in China and Japan. In 2016, she began working with the Portuguese string quartet Guimaraes String Quartet, with which she performs regularly. The quartet was invited in 2017 to the International Music Festival in Macau (China) and the concerts in Germany and Poland (including the National Music Forum in Wrocław). Furthermore, the band regularly performs in Portugal. Emilia Goch Salvador has been a lecturer at the Art Academy in Szczecin since 2013, and since 2019, she has conducted master courses for violists in her hometown of Szczecin, as well as in Guimaraes in Portugal.