Emily DeWoolfson is a composer and current PhD student in music theory at Temple University. She holds an MA degree in music theory from Pennsylvania State University, as well as BM and MM degrees in music composition from Christopher Newport University and University of Delaware, respectively.
Emily has taught core undergraduate courses in the theory sequence at Temple, Penn State, and University of Delaware, as well as a theory and technology course for non-majors at UD. She has previously served as President of the PSU chapter of Society for Music Theory, and President of the CNU Chapter of Society for Composers, Inc. Emily’s dissertation research focuses on depictions of water in the music of Fin de siècle France and related contexts.
Emily’s compositional style is influenced by surrealism, philosophy, and the avant garde, and often incorporates multimedia elements. Reverie—a stop-motion short film written, produced, and scored by Emily in 2018—has received laurels at the MystiCon Independent Film Festival, the Plum Tuckered Film Festival, and the Queen City Film Festival, among others. In 2015, her work Siren Song (for SATB Choir) won 1st place at the Delaware ACDA Collegiate Composers Competition. Emily was also the first student composer ever to premiere a fully staged chamber opera at University of Delaware.