Howard Emily Howard

Emily Howard (b. 1979) is currently studying for her PhD at the University of Manchester and is the youngest of this year's three composers. Howard spent her formative years learning the cello, playing chess (she was British Junior Girls Chess Champion for 6 years) and composing for local orchestras including The Liverpool Mozart Orchestra and The Wirral Youth Orchestra.

Emily read mathematics and computation at Lincoln College, Oxford University, where she also received guidance in composition from Robert Saxton. She went on to complete a Masters in Composition with Adam Gorb at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) gaining a double distinction as well as the Soroptimist International Award for Composers.

Over the past few years, she has been commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival.

 

 

Emily Howard

Emily Howard | "I am absolutely delighted to receive a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers 2008. The initial phone call left me literally jumping for joy and I spent the next week eagerly awaiting the post for proof that I hadn't dreamt the whole thing! To be given 45,000 pounds with no hidden agenda equates to artistic freedom and for a composer there is no greater privilege. It is a life-changing event."