Concert bio:

Emily Liushen is a composer born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky whose music explores somatic hyperawareness and the intimacy of human touch. 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, and a 2026 Yellow Barn Artist Residency. Her works have been performed by numerous musical groups across the country, including 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.

After early musical studies on the clarinet and piano, she earned her bachelors degree at Princeton and masters in composition at the Yale School of Music. Upcoming projects include a new work for Ensemble Connect and a solo viola album with Katie Liu of the Seattle Symphony. She is based in New York, where she is currently a C.V. Starr Fellow at The Juilliard School.

Email: emilyliushen (at) gmail.com
Instagram: @emilyliushen
Soundcloud: emilyliushen