Emily Howard


Emily Howard is a British composer from Liverpool.

Life and career

As a child, Howard learned to play chess and the cello, whilst also writing compositions for local ensembles and orchestras. After completing a degree in mathematics and computation at Lincoln College, Oxford, Howard studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. She holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Manchester.
In 2008 Howard received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers. In 2010 she became the inaugural UBS Composer in Residence in conjunction with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Bridge Academy in Hackney. In 2012, Howard won a for Mesmerism. She was a Leverhulme Trust at the University of Liverpool's Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2015 and is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow.
Howard is a at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and a at the .
Released in 2016, Howard's was well received by critics. Commissioned for premiere at the BBC Proms 2016, Torus was described by The Times as "visionary" and by The Guardian as "one of this year's finest new works". Howard's string quartet Afference has been short-listed for a British Composer Award 2016.

Selected works

Works for orchestra