Emma Bijelić
Music
Photography
Videography
What Does Emma Do?
Compose
Emma’s primary focus is composition. She’s worked with several renowned ensembles, such as loadbang, Everything Everything, Juniper Quartet, and more, to premiere arrangements and original works. She studies under the first American to win the Berlin Prize for composition, Dr. Laura Elise Schwendinger.
Emma studied flute performance under the exceptional Dr. Conor Nelson for two years before turning her focus to composition. She plays the flute, piano, some percussion, and learning the alto saxophone and guitar! Her love for performance hasn’t gone away, and she loves to conduct as well. Emma currently plays with the Ire Trio.
Perform & Conduct
Photography/Videography
Emma is not only an artist in the musical sense but visually as well. Her multimedia creativity has bled over into a love for professionally capturing the arts world through her camera and sharing her documentation with the world.
Her journey into becoming highly skilled at this art form started under the mentorship of Dave Alcorn, the founder of Microtone Media, during her collaboration as a marketing intern with LunART, a Madison-based organization celebrating women in the arts. Alcorn was able to provide Emma with the foundational training she needed to continue her own mission of not only contributing to the arts, but documenting it for the purpose of support and preservation.
This is where Emma’s specialty for composing for film and other media was truly born. The crossover between understanding both the creation of sound and image in order to tell a story unfolds in these two main paths: a composer and multimedia creative.
Emma also possesses all the necessary skills in order to edit and process all of her images. The Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is her best friend!
In addition to photographing/videographing artistic events, Emma loves to create short films or sketches. This has been something she’s done since she was eight years old; although all her actors were her teddy bears and Barbie dolls at the time, she has since grown to recruit student actors and film on a Canon rather than an iPod.
Check out some of Emma’s photography/videography work here!