Emelia Ulrich
Composer
She/Her
Emelia Ulrich is current graduate student at the Florida State University, studying to receive her Masters in Music Composition under Dr Liliya Ugay. She is a recent graduate of the University of Florida, holding Bachelor’s degrees in Music Composition and Music Education, completing her composition studies with Dr.'s Scott Lee, Tina Tallon, and Paul Richards. As a composer, performer, and educator, Emelia seeks to draw in audiences and performers alike with her compositions. Her experiences with new music from the perspective of all three of these roles greatly informs her compositional voice.
Emelia was recently a selected composer participating in the composition workshop of the 2024 Women Composers Festival of Hartford through which Balance Campaign recorded her festival commissioned work “Brambles” for pierrot ensemble with percussion. She was also one of the winners of the Contemporary Art Music Project’s Young Composers Competition for the 2024 CAMPGround Festival in Tampa, Florida, and composed her commissioned work “Every shooting star, dandelion, 11:11, and eyelash” for solo viola, performed by Sebastian Stefanovic, CAMPGround Festival performer and violist in the Florida Orchestra. In Summer 2025, Emelia will be participating in the ICEBERG Institute, once again having the opportunity to write for the CAMP ensemble, and the New York New Music Intensive where she will be writing a work for cellist Gabriel Cabezas.
Her work, “Trench” for piano trio was recently read by the Galan Trio in a collaboration with the FSU composition studio. Emelia has also collaborated with The Blank Experiment who premiered her work “Sundown, Green Flash, Evanescent” for reed quartet in October 2022 and have subsequently performed the work again in September 2023 at New Music Chicago’s “Impromptu Fest” and in April 2024 in Ontario, Canada in their Canadian debut at NUMUS Concerts. Additionally, Emelia had the opportunity to participate in an orchestral reading with the Ocala Symphony Orchestra who read her work "Lethologica" for orchestra through a collaboration with the University of Florida composition studio.
Also an active violinist and violist, Emelia studied violin at UF with Dr Janna Lower, and she regularly performs with the Gainesville Orchestra, Ocala Symphony, Vienna Light Orchestra, and FSU’s University Symphony Orchestra and new music ensemble, Polymorphia. Emelia has participated as a violinist in the National Music Festival, Killington Music Festival, Vienna Summer Music Festival, and most recently the Brevard Music Center Festival, also working with their new music ensemble as a performer.
Email: emeliaulrich@me.com
