A graduate of The Juilliard School (MM) and New England Conservatory (BM), Emilia’s award-winning music has been recorded, commissioned, and performed worldwide, including at Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Montclair State University, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. Described as an “effective” orchestral arranger by The New York Times for her arrangement for the One World Symphony, she has also collaborated with The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Grace Church Choir, Boulanger Initiative, Brooklyn Chamber Players, and The New York Choral Consortium, among others. Emilia received awards from The American Prize for “The New York Suite” in the Orchestral Division (semi-finalist, 2023) and for “Three Meditations” in the Charles Ives Award - Instrumental Chamber Division (finalist, 2025); Carnegie Hall Gala for “Three Meditations” (2023); ASCAP for “Eclipse” (honorable mention, 2003) and two awards from New England Conservatory for “String Quartet No. 2” and “Symbiosis” (2006, 2007). Her most recent work “Good Night” (2025) was described as “a stunning, heartfelt work… [that] perfectly captured the poem” by Kian Ravaei, Composer Fellowship Director, Tenby International Music Festival.

Emilia has done extensive research on melody and presented her scholarly article “In Defense of Melody” at the 2026 Aspen Composers’ Conference. She was accepted as a composition fellow at Arts Letters and Numbers, Bowdoin International Music Festival, FUBIS, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and was supported by the Irene Diamond Fellowship to attend The Juilliard School. Her primary teachers include Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, Lee Hyla, and Robert Aldridge.

Emilia is a passionate educator with a focus on composition, orchestration, music theory, and ear training. She is currently on the faculty at Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School - High School division and previously taught at Compton Conservatory in California. Her private teaching studio launched in Los Angeles in 2020 and she was a mentor and instructor to composition students at New England Conservatory for two academic years (2022-2023, 2025-2026). She is also a long distance runner, human rights activist, and currently resides in New York with her rescue dog Charlotte.