Lakeland, Florida (August 20, 2021) – The Adjudication Committee for the Lift Up Our Voices Scholarship for Underrepresented Composers is pleased to announce recipient of the 2021 scholarship, Emily Singleton. Ms. Singleton will be majoring in music composition at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington in the fall.

Emily Singleton (b. 2002) is a violist, composer, and writer from Gainesville, FL. Emily’s recent work explores intersections in poetry, linguistics, visual art, and music centering breath, gesture, and interaction of physical material. Her music has been described as “lovely and intense,” “extremely colorful,” and “incredibly precise” while “thinking outside the box.”

Emily has had her work presented at ShapeShifter Lab, University of Florida, Interlochen Center for the Arts, University of Georgia, Curtis Summerfest, Historic Thomas Center, SUNY at Fredonia, St. Augustine Music Festival, Young Women Composers Camp, and Petaluma Center for the Arts. She has collaborated with artists and ensembles such as flutist Mimi Stillman, Face the Music, mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland, Gainesville Civic Chorus, Dolce Suono Ensemble, Alachua County Youth Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, and World Youth Wind Symphony, as well as been featured by organizations and projects such as New Music Decanted, Para el Pueblo Project, and Fredonia New Music Reading Gathering.

Emily’s work has been recognized by the National Federation of Music Clubs, Florida State Music Teachers Association, Sacred Music Florida, Foundation for the Promotion of Music, Technology In Music Education Foundation, Music Teachers National Association, Music at the Anthology, ASCAP, Luna Lab, and NextNotes. She has also received grants from the Ashley Willwerth Memorial Scholarship Foundation, BRASS Ring Karen B. Boling and Colin Kiely Memorial Scholarship, and New Music USA’s New Music Solidarity Fund. As a 2019 William and Martha Paine Orchestral Scholar and member of the Tomari Quartet she recorded Erwin Schulhoff’s 5 Pieces for String Quartet at IPR in summer 2019. In 2021, she participated in Sō Percussion’s Collaborative Workshop and Summer Institute, and was an apprentice composer with NYO-USA.

In high school Emily studied with Paul Richards, Daniel Felsenfeld, Jorge Peña, and Stephen Fine, and took creative writing classes as a dual enrollment student at University of Florida. She will begin studies at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Fall 2021 as a Jacobs Scholar, pursuing her BM in music composition and viola performance, studying composition with Sky Macklay and viola with Atar Arad.