Emma Donkin is a Northeast Ohio jazz, classical, contemporary, and math rock composer and pianist focused on creating evocative, rhythmically-inventive music.
A selected 2021 Fellow of the Alba Music Festival Composition Program, her musical influences and compositions range from jazz, funk, and progressive rock to neoclassical and solo piano music. Emma received her B.M. in music composition from Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music in 2018, and will graduate in May 2021 with her Master of Music degree from the University of Akron. She has composed for solo instrumentalists, chamber ensembles, wind ensemble, and jazz ensemble, and in 2020 completed a 35-minute choir cantata centered on the crucifixion of Christ for Portage Community Chapel’s Tenebrae Service. Emma was featured as a local artist in the 2018 Sundance Film Music Festival in Akron, OH, has had her music performed by the W.D. Packard Band of Warren, Ohio, Tria Corazón, and has premiered many works both at YSU and the University of Akron’s New Music Festival. Emma studied under Dr. David Morgan (composition) and Dr. Caroline Oltmanns (piano), and currently studies under Dr. Jamie Wilding at the University of Akron (MM). She resides on the border of the wilds of Appalachia. |