Emily Howard

Composer Emily Howard writes music that is informed by her knowledge of higher mathematics. Despite, or perhaps because of, this orientation, her works have a highly expressive quality and have been widely performed. One of Howard's early full-scale works was Magnetite, composed in 2007; that work was recorded in 2016 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under conductor Andrew Gourlay. Howard began to gain wider attention in 2010 when her work Solar, representing large-scale celestial phenomena, was commissioned by the London Symphony and earned critical praise. In 2018, Howard composed her first full-length opera, To See the Invisible, based on a short story by science fiction writer Robert Silverberg. Several of Howard's orchestral works were collected on the album Emily Howard: Torus, which appeared in 2023. By that time, some 15 of her compositions had been recorded.