Canadian-born, Glasgow-based composer Emily Doolittle is an Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has an ongoing interest in zoomusicology—the relationship between animal songs and music—which she explores in both her composition and through interdisciplinary collaboration with biologists. Recent projects include (re)cycling I: metals, a percussion quartet for recycled and found objects commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg for Architek Percussion, a series of songs with medieval Spanish and Ladino texts about nightingales for the Montreal-based early music Ensemble La Cigale, and the music for an Audible audiobook adaptation of Anne of Green Gables.

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