Conservatory-trained composer (8+ years teaching experience)

Em R.

Em R. is a Boston and Southern California-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, educator, and electronic musician. She completed her Master of Music in Composition, as well as her Undergraduate Diploma in Composition (as a Presidential Scholar), at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.

In private studio lessons, Em has taught flute, music theory, composition, and music history to students (from grade school to college). She offers lessons to all levels of experience, and strives to meet each student's needs and works with their current musical knowledge. She believes that music theory, music history, and composition are invaluable assets for all students, and not only helps their understanding of music, but inspires further education.

As a classroom teacher, she has instructed music theory and woodwind students, aged 13-17, throughout the school year and during summer band camps. The curriculum used includes general sound warm-ups, technical exercises, general music theory and ear-training. Her students have gone on to prestigious colleges such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Irvine, and New York University.

She has played several instruments for most of her life, including flute, guitar, mandolin, and cello; yet piano became her home while in college studying composition. As a composer, she draws on earth science, visual art, and emotion to create genre-blended works that combine classical and romantic music with folk, rock, pop, and electronic elements.

Em's aim as a teacher is to inspire love for expression through music, and encourage each student to continue with music in some capacity throughout their life.