Em Singleton is a composer, violinist, writer, and linguist from Gainesville, Florida. Being a Jacobs Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington pursuing undergraduate studies in music composition, viola, and linguistics, studying composition with Sky Macklay, Aaron Travers, Han Lash, and David Dzubay, and viola with Atar Arad, Em’s musical repertoire and talent is virtually limitless.
Among some of their many accomplishments, Singleton has recorded and premiered live-to-picture Daniel Whitworth’s score for the 2022 Jon Vickers Film Scoring Award at the IU Cinema, as part of the Library of Congress’ restoration of Phil for Short in Kino Lorber’s “Cinema’s First Nasty Women” collection. In addition, in 2023, they received a Teaching Internship Grant from Hutton Honors College for their work in the Linguistics department, and were invited to participate in the 2023 IU 48 Hours collaboration with Hub New Music.
Singleton’s recent work has focused on specific interaction of timbre, gesture, noise, representing physical textures, and intersections of poetry, linguistics, and music.