Emily Seaberry Graef is the founder and the flutist of the Juliani Ensemble. The Juliani Ensemble is one of America’s foremost chamber music ensembles, now under the direction of celebrated violinist and violist, Julian Graef cello soloist Anita Graef. The Juliani Ensemble performs monthly concerts at their home series at Primitive Gallery in Chicago, a two week chamber music festival in rural Wisconsin, The Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival and perform concerts and masterclasses nationally and internationally.  Recently, the Juliani Ensemble has performed and taught at The University of Missouri, Washington and Lee University, the Hudson Valley of New York and the Yukon Territory of Canada among others.

Beginning in 1999, Ms. Graef and the Juliani Ensemble were performing partners with The Chicago Cultural Center for 20 years, performing chamber music concerts throughout the year in historic Preston Bradley Hall. Ms. Graef has maintained a teaching studio for more than 30 years. Ms. Graef is a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Music where she won the Nelson Howenstein Award for outstanding flute performance. 

Emily did postgraduate study at The University of Maryland and at The Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Austria where she studied with Helmut Zangerle. She is the former Principal Flute and soloist with The Rome Festival Orchestra and has performed as flutist with The Chicago Winds, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series and on the nationally acclaimed and broadcast Dame Myra Hess series.

Emily was the co-founder of The Galena Chamber Ensemble, a chamber music organization which performed in Galena, Illinois for 10 years in historic Turner Hall. She has been an artist in residence at the People's Music School and is a former faculty member of the Merit School of Music.