Praised for her "communicative, emotionally intense expression" (Jerusalem Post) and "technical wizardry and artistic intuition" (Herald Times), harpist Emily Levin has forged a multifaceted career as a soloist, orchestral musician, chamber collaborator, artistic director, and advocate for new music.

Levin is now in her seventh season as principal harp with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She has also served as guest principal harp with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Houston Symphony, and appears regularly with the New York Philharmonic. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at leading venues throughout North America and Europe — including Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, Bravo! Vail, the Kimmel Center, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Rugen, Germany. At the request of conductors Jaap van Zweden and John Adams, she has twice appeared as a soloist with the Dallas Symphony. Other concerto engagements include performances  with  the  Jerusalem and Colorado Symphonies; the Louisiana Philharmonic; and the Ojai Festival and Lakes Area Music Festival.

Guided by her mission to expand the harp repertoire, Levin works extensively with established and emerging composers alike. In 2021, she founded GroundWork(s), an initiative commissioning 52 American composers — one from each state, plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico — to write new works centered on the harp. Recent and upcoming commissions have included works by Angélica Negrón, Reena Esmail, Michael Ippolito, Aaron Holloway Nahum, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate.

 Levin is the only American to receive top prizes at two of the most prestigious international harp competitions: the USA International Harp Competition and the International Harp Contest in Israel. She was also a winner of the 2016 Astral Artists National Auditions and was named the Classical Recording Foundation's 2017 Young Musician of the Year for her debut album, Something Borrowed.

The 2023/2024 season will include a European tour with the Boston Symphony as guest principal harp, performances of Dylan Mattingly's Lacrimae Rerum for two harps and two detuned pianos at Los Angeles's Green Umbrella, a North American tour of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Freude with harpist Michelle Gott, and the release of a new album of trios for harp, violin, and cello with violinist Julia Choi and cellist Christine Lamprea. As artistic director of Dallas's Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP), which presents local musicians in a series of free concerts tailored to families and children,

Levin has centered FACP’s 2023-2024 programming on the theme of "The Ties That Bind," exploring the threads that connect us to each other and the larger world.

A committed educator, Levin is currently an adjunct associate professor of harp at Southern Methodist University, a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and Young Artist's Harp Seminar, and will serve as a guest professor of harp at Baylor University for the fall 2023 term. She received a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and holds undergraduate degrees in music and history from Indiana University. Emily lives in Dallas with her husband, composer Jonathan Cziner, and their dogs Charlie and JoJo.