A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Shinner, Emily

SHINNER, Emily, born at Cheltenham, July 7, 1862, began the study of the violin at the age of seven. In 1874 she went to Berlin, and for two years studied under H. Jacobsen, a pupil of Joachim's, female violinists not being at that time admissible to the Hochschule. In 1876 this restriction was taken away, and Miss Shinner was among the first admitted. In October 1877 she became a pupil of Joachim's, and remained with him for three years. In Feb. 1881 she came to London, and after being heard at several private concerts (among others at one given by the Bach Choir), made her début at a concert given by Mr. H. R. Bird in the Kensington Town Hall, in Brahms's Sonata in G, etc. At the London Musical Society's concerto of June 29, 1882, she played David's concerto in E minor with great success, and since that time has held a high position among English artists, her style being pure and refined, and her power of interpreting works of a high intellectual order being very remarkable. Early in 1889 she married Capt. A. F. Liddell.

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