emely phelps, piano
Praised by the Boston Globe for her “fleet, energetic, and bright-toned” playing, pianist Emely Phelps enjoys a versatile career as a chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. A finalist for the 2019 Pro Musicis International Award and the 2022-2023 Ernst Bacon Prize for American Music, Emely has given more than 40 performances over the past two years, with recent highlights including an all- American solo recital and educational residency in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s birthplace of East Liverpool, OH; performances of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and Ohio University Symphony Orchestra; and duo recitals with pianist Oksana Ezhokina, violinist Christine Harada Li, and flutist Hannah Porter Occeña.
An in-demand collaborator, Emely was a founding member of the prizewinning Trio Cleonice, with whom she spent eight years performing more than 150 concerts across the United States, Europe, and China. She appears on flutist Hannah Porter Occeña’s album, Confluence, and recently recorded a second album with Hannah, as well as a CD for the Delos label with violinist Dawn Wohn, both featuring duos by female composers. Emely is on the faculty of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, performs regularly with Electric Earth Concerts, and has attended numerous other chamber music festivals, including five summers at Yellow Barn and three summers at Kneisel Hall.
Emely currently serves as Artist-Teacher of Piano at Ohio University, where she co-chairs the keyboard division, teaches piano, chamber music, and keyboard repertoire, and directs the graduate collaborative piano degree program. She holds a doctoral degree from Stony Brook University, a BM and MM from Juilliard, and has studied with Christina Dahl, Julian Martin, Vivian Weilerstein, Marjorie Lee, and Carole Kriewaldt.