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Emily was awarded the 2012 Morton Gould Young Composers Award for her octet trans-[migra].nation. All young composers will be recognized at the annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The award-winning composers share prizes of over $40,000 and receive complimentary copies of Sibelius software, generously donated by Avid.
Emily is named Composer-in-Residence of Lunar Ensemble with composer Jake Runestad, starting April 1 2012. Lunar Ensemble is a Baltimore-based pierrot ensemble dedicated to performing works of contemporary composers for the genre.
Emily returns to the Composers Conference at Wellesley College as the 2012 Commissioned Composer. The new commissioned piece, tra[d/ns]itions for string quartet, will be premiered on both the Saturday evening concerts on July 28 and August 4, with the composer conducting. She will be in residence at Wellesley College from July 22 to August 5 more »
This summer, Emily will be one of eight fellows at Sävellyspaja 2012, a masterclass and concert by Sävellyspaja-yhdistys ry in Sännas, Finland. There, she will be working with Finnish composers Jukka Tiensuu and Jouni Kaipainen. Her work … the blood-drops, scarlet-colored…, for string orchestra and electronics, specially written for The Avanti!, will be premiered at the more »
May 15th, 2012 
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Emily’s piece [circum]-perceptio (2010) for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello, was one of ten pieces selected out of 350 submissions by the judges for the 2012 PARMA Student Competition. It will be published in the 2012 PARMA Anthology of Music: Student Edition, which will be provided to educators and performers free of charge.
See the announcement here!
May 13th, 2012 emilykoh This past weekend, frigia, commissioned and premiered by LUNAR Ensemble this past March, saw a performance up here in Boston at the New Music Brandeis concert series.
The New England premiere was made possible by the amazing musicians – Jessical Fulkerson (flute), Ryan Yure (clarinet), Jared Redmond (piano), Shaw Pong Liu (violin), Tony Rymer (cello), Kimberly Soby (soprano) and Jeff Means (conductor). Listen to a recording of the live performance below!
On the same concert, I also played the double bass on the premiere of Richard Chowenhill’s Strife, a song cycle for soprano and double bass, with the awesome soprano Kimberly Soby.
Listen to the recording of that here!
* Both recordings were recorded and mixed by recording engineer Jason Rogers.
April 6th, 2012 emilykoh 
Emily is named a winner of a 2012 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her octet trans-[migra].nation. The award will be presented at the annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at Merkin Concert Hall in New York on May 24, 2012. Check out the press release here!
Listen to trans-[migra].nation!
