Emily Koh

Emily Koh (born 1986 in Singapore) is a Singaporean composer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2017, she is Assistant Professor of Composition at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Her works have been described as "beautifully eerie" (New York Times), "subtley spicy" (Baltimore Sun) and having a "dancing, stop-start motion" (Boston Globe). 
Emily was a student of the music elective program at Temasek Junior College, and played double bass in the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. She continued her studies in composition with Ho Chee Kong and double bass with Guennadi Mouzyka at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. She moved to Baltimore, Maryland to pursue her Master's degree in composition and music theory pedagogy at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University as a student of Kevin Puts. She earned her Ph.D. in music theory and composition at Brandeis University in Waltham, Waltham, Massachussetts under the tutelage of David Rakowski, Eric Chasalow and Yu-Hui Chang. She was commencement marshal for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis' 66th commencement ceremony, held May 21 2017. 
Emily is a recipient of the 2020 Opera America OGFC Commissioning Grant , 2019 Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council, Singapore, 2019-2020 Copland House Residency Award, 2013 Yoshiro Irino Prize (Asian Composers League), 2012 Barlow Endowment General Commission, 2012 American Society of Composers, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and 2012 PARMA Student Composers Competition. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and Avaloch Farm Music Institute. In 2019, her work After Igor was selected to be read by the Aguascalientes Symphony (Mexico) as part of the American Composers Orchestra's Earshot program. She was named as one of "30 of Singapore's rising stars under 30" by the The Straits Times in 2015. 
In March 2020, Emily performed as the double bass soloist in her work diver[city] with the University of Wisconson-Whitewater Symphonic Wind Ensemble (conducted by Glenn Hayes) at Carnegie Hall, as part of the New York Wind Band Festival. She was on the composition faculty of the International Composition Institute of Thailand (2020) and Alba Music Festival (2019). 
* heteronym/ on PRISM Quartet's album, Surfaces and Essences. XAS Records / XAS 108, released April 17 2020.
* memento mori on McCormick Percussion Group's album, Strings & Hammers. Ravello Records / RR8037, released July 10 2020. 
* \very/ specifically vague on Transient Canvas' album, Right Now, In A Second. New Focus Recordings / fcr267, released October 16 2020
Year	Piece 	Instrumentation
2007	Two Miniatures 	Clarinet
2008	vom Empirischen Standpunkt 	Oboe
2008	Si fallor, sum 	Piano
2009	About E.C.O. 	Symphony Orchestra
2010	After Igor 	Symphony Orchestra
2010	[circum]-perceptio 	flute (doubling piccolo), oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussions, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass
2010	binary states // dichotomies 	Flute and Harp
2010	Generations 	4 sopranos, percussion, piano and double bass or 4 sopranos and piano
2010	The Remorse of the Dead 	SATB acapella choir
2011	re-intro:spect 	Sinfonietta
2011	trans-[migra].nation 	flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, french horn, bass trombone, percussion, piano, violin and double bass (with C extension)
2011	f-sion 	clarinet, saxophone, percussion, violin and bass (acoustic and electric)
2011	frigia 	flute (doubling alto flute), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), piano, violin, cello and soprano
2011	byte 	Violin
2011	There Is A Painted Bus 	Children’s Choir (SSA) and optional piano accompaniment
2012	… the blood-drops, scarlet-colored… 	String Orchestra
2012	tra[d/ns]itions 	String Quartet
2012	cycrotations 	P1 vib, xyl, 4 unpitched metal tubes, Chinese cym, 2 splash cym, 2 toms (higher), 5 woodblocks (high), whip
P2 glock, hi-hat, 2 susp. cym, 2 bongos, BD, 5 woodblocks (low)
P3 crot, xyl, timpano (with cro and cym), 3 nipple gongs, 2 cowbells, 2 congas, rain stick, [optional: frying pans]
P4 vib, tubular bells, bell tree, mar, 2 tam-tams, 2 tri, 2 toms (lower), guiro [preferably wooden]
2012	the tide rises, the tide falls… 	unaccompanied SSAATB
2013	homonym 	soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones
2013	ombre 	soprano and clarinet
2013	bridging : isolation 	clarinet, violin and piano
2013	synpunkt 	flute, clarinet and percussion
2013	motes 	solo alto saxophone and electronics
2014	petrichor 	2 flutes, clarinet, soprano sax, baritone sax, horn, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, piano, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, soprano and mezzo soprano
2014	Jia[k] 	Symphony Orchestra
2014	e(e)-m 	flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello, percussion and soprano
2014	kilobyte 	Solo Violin
2015	cis-[flux] 	Sinfonietta
2015	diver[city] 	Wind Ensemble
2015	implodex!! 	violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet
2015	smidgen(S) 	Cello and Piano
2016	heteronym/ 	soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones
2016	logos 	violin, viola, double bass (with B string/extension)
2016	medi+aTion 	solo baritone saxophone
2016	nakuniku 	16-voice acapella choir (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB)
2017	resonate 	Chinese chamber octet ( gaoyin sheng, pipa, zhongruan, daruan, guzheng, percussion, gaohu, erhu/zhonghu) and woodwind quintet (flute, clarinet, oboe, horn, bassoon)
2017	peri{methe 	soprano, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, percussion, violin, double bass
2017	emojicons 	soprano, double bass
2017	{plithe 	amplified viola and toy piano
2017	esphyr 	amplified violin, piano and percussion
2017	\very/ specifically vague 	bass clarinet and marimba
2017	within the inside down 	Solo Bass Trombone
2018	am burning, have burned, will burn 	mezzo soprano, harpsichord, baroque cello, baroque guitar
2018	cryptonym: 	soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
2018	[sub]contractures 	contrabass flute, contraforte
2018	chronoma 	soprano and alto saxophones (1 player), percussion [hi-hat, water gong, 3 large gongs, large metal can, triangle, 6 unpitched metal tubes, 2 tomtoms, 32″ timpani], piano
2018	Fräulein Datuk 拿督姑娘 	Chinese orchestra
2018	Fantasia on “Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir”	organ
2018	Bosniak 	film score
2019	winged throat 	guitar
2019	aphonia 	violin, viola (both vocalizing)
2019	o'phony 	kalimba ensemble
2019	memento mori 	violin, double bass, percussion quintet
2019	emoyo 	percussion quartet
2019	homemade recipe: char kuay 	12-voice acapella choir (SSSAAATTTBBB)
2020	homemade recipe: nasi ulam 	wind symphony
2020	Opera Green 	film score
2020	amuse-b口uche 	bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, trombone, euphonium
2020	mega[byte] 	viola
2020	under; elsewhere 	quartertonal trumpet
2020	saturation temp! 	piano and melodica (one player)
Category:Singaporean composers
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