Emily is one of eight composers selected to participate in Sävellyspaja 2012 in Finland this summer. She be in Finland from June 25 to July 1, and will compose a new work that will be premiered at the Avanti! Summer Sounds Festival.
October 2011
-October 28 2011-
Emily will be writing a new pierrot + percussion + voice work for LUNAR ensemble - a Baltimore-based new music chamber ensemble led by Maestra Gemma New. The new work will be premiered in the ensemble's February concert alongside other new commissions by composers such as Jake Runestad.
-October 12 2011-
Emily will be writing a new for percussion ensemble for the SUNY Purchase Percussion Studio, headed by Dr Dominic Donato. The new work will be performed in Fall 2012.
September 2011
-September 21 2011-
The Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center has commissioned a new string quartet for the 2012 conference. The new work will be premiered in the 2012 conference held at Wellesley College, Wellesley MA in late-July 2012.
August 2011
-August 26 2011-
Emily's newest solo violin piece -byte - has been selected in a call for scores, as the set piece for the National Arts Council's 2011 National Piano and Violin Competition (Violin Senior Category). There will be a Meet-the-Composer session on October 19 (Wednesday) at 4.30pm for participants. The work will be performed at the competition held in Singapore between December 3-11 2011.
July 2011
-July 26 2011-
trans-[migra].nation has been selected to be presented at the 2011 Asian Composers League Conference and Festival held in Taiwan. The conference will be held from November 26 to December 3 2011. Emily's work will be presented on November 30 2011 by musicians of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in the Chamber Music Concert.
May 2011
-May 26 2011-
Emily graduates from the Peabody Conservatory with a Master of Music degree in Composition, and a Master of Music degree in Music Theory Pedagogy. She also awarded the following graduation awards - Otto Ortmann Award in Composition and Anonymous Award in Music Theory.
-May 20 2011-
Emily is selected by the faculty and deans of the Peabody Conservatory for the Otto Ortmann Award in Composition.
April 2011
-April 29 2011-
Emily is awarded the Anonymous Award in Music Theory for outstanding work by the Music Theory Department at Peabody.
-April 26 2011-
Si fallor, sum is one of three works chosen from a call-for-scores to be performed and workshopped by pianist, Michael Sheppard. The performance/workshop will take place at the Cohen-Davidson Family Theatre, Baltimore MD.
-April 7 2011-
Emily wins first prize in Prix d'Ete.
-April 6 2011-
Emily is a finalist of the 2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
March 2011
-March 23 2011-
Emily is the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Fellowship at the 2011 Composers Conference at Wellesley College. Emily will attend the conference Wellesley College from July 24 to August 7, where her work in retro|re-instro:spect will be premiered.
February 2011
-February 23 2011-
Emily's newest choral work The Remorse of the Dead is selected to be rehearsed and recorded by the Peabody Singers.
-February 11 2011-
Emily is selected as one of four judges for the Music Composition category of the National PTA Reflections Competition 2011. Emily will judge the senior category, and meet the other jurors for the final judgings of each category at the PTA Headquarters in Alexandria VA.
November 2010
-November 12 2010-
The Straits Times reviewer, Chang Tou Liang reviews After Igor and the concert"100 years later".
Young Singaporean composer Emily Koh's 10-minute-long After Igor was the result. Scored for the same orchestral forces as Firebird, Koh did not attempt to imitate or recreate the Russian's style. Instead her tone poem was a wholly original essay reflecting a mysterious sound world on the threshold of tonality.There were some vaguely familiar moments - string reveries, brassy fanfares, evocative woodwind solos - which all made for an atmospheric and satisfying appetiser for the ballet's main course.
-November 9 2010-
The Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore, directed by Maestro Lim Yau, performs their commissioned work After Igor in "100 years later" at the Esplanade Concert Hall.
October 2010
-October 20 2010-
Flutist Cheryl Lim and harpist Shuang Liu perform binary states//dichotomies at the Cohen-Davidson Family Theatre.
August 2010
-August 9 2010-
The Juventas New Music Group has chosen [circum]-perceptio for a future concert date.
June 2010
-June 29 2010-
Emily is featured in an article about Singaporean composers born in the 1980s in Zaobao News (Singapore).
Read the article here.
-June 5 2010-
New York Times reviewer, Allan Kozinn reviews [circum]-perceptio and other new works performed at the June in Buffalo Festival 2010. See quote below, or read it here.
Emily Koh’s beautifully eerie “circum perceptio,” built in layers of delicate string, piano and woodwind timbres, was another highlight of the Signal program.
-June 1 2010-
[circum]-perceptio (for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello) wins second prize at the Virginia Carty deLillo Composition Competition
May 2010
-May 31 2010-
Emily's chamber work, [circum]-perceptio (for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello) was performed by the SIGNAL Ensemble, conducted by Brad Ludman, at the June in Buffalo Festival 2010.
-May 11 2010-
Jazz saxophonist and recording engineer Jason Rogers performs Emily's work for EWI and interactive video playback, From 718 to 601 at the Computer Music Department Recital.
-May 9 2010-
Composer and Peabody composition faculty Oscar Bettison blogs about the Opera Etudes performance, where Emily's new one-act opera Generations was staged by the Peabody Opera Department, on Sequenza 21. Read his post here.
-May 5 2010-
Baltimore Sun music critic, Tim Smith reviews Generations and other operas in the Opera Etudes performance. See quote below, or read it here.
Most impressive to me was "Generations," a snapshot of four intersecting lives in a single family. Emily Koh's subtly spicy score produced some strong lyricism (there's a vivid quartet along the way). Katherine Krueger wrote the effective libretto and also performed as the Grandmother in the vibrant cast, joined by Alexandra Iranfar (Daughter), Danielle Edwards (Mother) and Annie Laing (Great-Grandmother). Brunyate provided the telling stage direction.
-May 4 2010-
The Peabody Opera Department Emily's one-act opera, Generations, as part of the Opera Etudes program. Generations was performed by Alexandar Iranfar (Daughter), Danielle Edwards (Mother), Katherine Krueger (Grandmother), Annie Laing (Great-Grandmother), Gemma New (conductor), Tatevik Khoja-Eynatyan (percussion) and Emily Koh (double bass). Special thanks to Roger Brunyate (stage director), Jo Ann Kulesca (music director) and Katherine Krueger (librettist).Please check back soon to view the video recording of the performance.
April 2010
-April 22 2010-
Emily presented [circum]-perceptio, a piece for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello, at a masterclass by Christopher Rouse.
-April 16 2010-
Emily's newest orchestra work, After Igor, was read by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Teri Murai. To listen, press the play button below.
-April 14 2010-
Emily receives the Peabody Career Development Grant to professionaly record her new work [circum]-perceptio.
-April 7 2010-
Emily's new work for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello, [circum]-perceptio, was performed at the Peabody Composition Department Recital. It was performed by Gemma New (conductor), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Sao Aoki (percussion), Hannah Lim (piano), Martiros Shakhzadyan (violin) and Ekachai Maskulrat (cello).
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