Kentucky-born artist Emily Liushen explores somatic hyperawareness and the intimacy of human touch through musical notation. She the recipient of a 2025 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2025 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a 2025-26 Thea Musgrave Commissioning Prize with Nabeel Hayek, and a 2026 Yellow Barn Artist Residency with Katie Liu. Her works have been performed across the country by Ensemble Connect, The Rhythm Method, David Shifrin & Friends, the New York Youth Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, Princeton Camerata, JACK Quartet, Atlys Quartet, Opus Chamber Group, and Quartet Iris of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Trained from childhood in both classical music and the physical sciences, she pursued the academic study of music and clarinet performance at Princeton University (AB) and composition at the Yale School of Music (MM) with Donnacha Dennehy, Jo-Ann Sternberg, Jeff Snyder, Katherine Balch, Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Chris Theofanidis. Emily is currently based in New York City, where she is a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School.