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Emily Anna Bridges: Composer
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Emily Anna Bridges (1977), a native of New Hampshire, graduated in 1999 with a B.A. in Music from Colby College in Waterville, ME, where she studied composition with Jonathan Hallstrom, and was the winner of the Comparetti Music prize for composition. Her pieces were played by the Colby Symphony Orchestra as well as the Portland String Quartet. After college she relocated to Boston, where she studied privately with composer and pianist John McDonald. Her pieces were performed in concert by the Arden String Quartet as well as Musica Sacra, conducted by Mary Beekman. She is presently working on her doctoral dissertation as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded a William Penn Fellowship. Her teachers there include Jay Reise, James Primosch, Anna Weesner, and Ingrid Arauco. She has presented her work at Haverford College and West Chester University, participated in readings by Network for New Music and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and was recently chosen as an Associate Artist-in-Residence with Yehudi Wyner at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She is also a soprano and in addition to professional performance in Early and 20th/21st Century styles, teaches voice lessons as part of the College House Program at Penn. Her most recent piece, "Change," for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble (2006) won Penn's Helen L. Weiss Prize for Composition.
