TCC 35. Vigil - Emelia Ulrich
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Emelia Ulrich and her piece Vigil . Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Emelia about her background, philosophy in music, the piece Vigil , the place of music theory in composition and much more!!
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Citation from episode: Bourne, Janet. “5. Topic Theory and Film: Coming of Age in 1994’s and 2019’s Little Women.” In Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score , 1:87–109. Ed. Frank Lehman. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024.
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Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
Contact:
acdzurilla@yahoo.com
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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 composit… Read More
