Previous Projects

Theatre work for 6 Musician/Dancer/Actors

2024. Dur 85 minutes, Live instrumentation 6 voices, violin, cello, bass, harp, guitar, recorded: bass, synth, guitar, electronics.

An unflinching, heartfelt and uplifting exploration of love, loss and survival. Music, dance and recorded interviews from conversations across the UK are richly layered by a world class ensemble of musicians, dancers and actors to create an elegy to the power of story and human connection. Me Without You celebrates those we’ve lost and those of us who are still here.

For Pilot Theatre, adaptation by Zoe Cooper of David Almond's novel

2024. Duration 2 hours 10 minute, soundtrack. For 6 singers, live guitar, recorded soundtrack of harp, viola, guitar, bass, synth, drums

Musical inspiration came from Northumbrian folksong, the descriptions of sound and music in David Almond's original book, and Tyneside contemporary legend Sam Fender.

Commission for Leeds2023 Children's Day: Reimagined

2023. Duration: 15 minutes. Live instrumentation: Mass Children's Choir in 3 parts, Live Samba Drums (Rock School UK), Recorded instrumentation: guitar, bass, synth.

Working with Fevered Sleep and Leeds2023 and co-created with Leeds Young Creatives, 'Hear Us!' explores the things that young people from across Leeds wanted to be heard, their demands, hopes and dreams.

For Re:Sound Festival, Streetwise Opera & BBC Concert Orchestra

2023. Duration 4 minutes. Live instrumentation: Mass Choir in 3 parts, BBC London Concert Orchestra: Vln 1&2, Vla, Cello, Dbl Bass, Flute, Oboe, Clar, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Tromb, Timp, Perc, Harp.

Made with Women's Direct Access, Manchester as part of Streetwise Opera's Re:Sound Festival '22-'23

New Multimedia Work

A new multi media work for theatre: Dur 40 mins for: 5 voices, String Trio, recorded speech  

More details coming soon but for now here' s a description of the project

https://brittenpearsarts.org/news/emily-levy-songs-of-belonging

Britten Pears Arts, Group A: for Vocal Group and Band

2021. Duration 20minutes. 4 Part Vocal Ensemble, Vibraphone, Trumpet, Bass, Drums.

Written for Group A, a group of young singers, to perform at the 'Beach of Dreams Festival' in Lowestoft in July '21 together with jazz quartet Ping Machine.

Choral and ensemble

2021. Duration: 14 minutes: SATB Choir and Soloists, Piano, Vln, Vla, Electric Guitar, Bass, Drums.

Written for Roderick Williams and Susie Allan

Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano

Instrumentation: Baritone, Piano, ebow

6 Songs, Approx 25 minutes

Here is a short documentary on the project

Or here is the cycle in full

Opera Chorus for Streetwise Opera

2019. Duration 12 minutes. 'Re-Union' for Choir, Soloists and Small Ensemble: Flute, Piano, Vln, Vla, Cello, Percussion.

'Re-Union' was devised with the Performers of Streetwise Opera Groups in Manchester and with writer Marigold Hughes, as part of their 2019 'Opera Hour' and performed at the Royal Northern College of Music. All the text comes from Streewise Opera Performers.

For the Thallein Ensemble, Performed at Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels December 2016

For large ensemble

Instrumentation: Flute, Ob, Cl,Tpt, Tmbn, Perc, E.Guit, Pno, Vln 1, Vln 2, Vla, Cello

‘Zoetroping’ (2016) was written for the 2016 collaboration between the Thallein Ensemble and the Bozar.  It explores the idea of successive states of simple movement and is inspired by the 3D printed Zoetropes of artist Mat Collishaw.