Ty Emerson

Ty Alan Emerson’s music has been heard across the U.S. and abroad. His work has been featured at several festivals including: The 2006 CMS/SCI National Conference in San Antonio, The Akron New Music Festival, The Huddersfield New Music Festival, the Resolution 2000 New Music Festival, and the Louisiana State University New Music Festival. In Cleveland, Emerson has been a featured composer on two of WCLV radio’s programs, “Not the Dead White Male Composer’s Hour,” and “Musical Passions.” Emerson has been the recipient of many awards including: The Randolph S. Rothschild Award, Frank D. Willis Memorial Prize, Southeastern Composers League Composer Award, the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Eleanor Searle McCullum Donor Award. In 2000 Emerson was named the New Hampshire Committee Fellow to the famed MacDowell. In addition to his formal composition training with Thomas Albert, Dinos Constantinides and Morris Moshe Cotel, Emerson has worked with such luminaries as John Corigliano, Samuel Adler and Chen Yi.