Emily Liushen is a composer born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky whose music explores somatic hyperawareness and the intimacy of human touch.

Attending the Youth Performing Arts School as a clarinetist, she later studied music at Princeton and composition at the Yale School of Music with Katherine Balch, Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, and Chris Theofanidis. In 2025 she was awarded the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her music has been performed by David Shifrin & Friends, the New York Youth Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra, Princeton Camerata, JACK Quartet, Atlys Quartet, Opus Chamber Group, and Quartet Iris of the Philadelphia Orchestra. ​Upcoming projects include a string quartet and a solo viola project with Katie Liu of the Seattle Symphony. She is based in New Haven.

Email: emilyliushen (at) gmail.com
Instagram: @emilyliushen
Soundcloud: emilyliushen