About
Emerson Eads is from Fairbanks, Alaska. He studied composition with Adlai Burman and John Luther Adams. He studied choral conducting at the University of Notre Dame with Carmen-Helena Téllez, obtaining his Doctorate in Musical Arts in May, 2018. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Minot State University.
Dr. Emerson Eads, currently serves as Director of Choral Activities at Minot State University. As a composer and conductor, Emerson has devoted himself to music of social concern. His Mass for the Oppressed, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass featuring textual interpolations by his brother Evan Eads, and a Credo adapted from the diary of Pope Francis before his ordination, holds particular poignancy for the social issues of our time. The Mass was written for the release of the Fairbanks Four (native Alaskan’s from the composer’s home town) who spent 18 years in prison wrongfully.
News
New commission by soprano, Laura Strickling’s 40@40 project
Emerson Eads is excited to be featured with 40+ other composers of American Art Song in soprano, Laura Strickling's 40th Birthday commission and performance project: 40@40
Semi-Finalist for American Prize in Composition
Patrick Milian's and my The Gleaners was selected as a semi-finalist in the Vocal Chamber Music division of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. Here's the link: https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/.../semi-finalist.......
Two songs published in two new Anthologies for Soprano
I'm excited that my song Love Is from the cycle with the same name will be published by Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs, Volume I, and my setting of Yeats' poem, When You Are Old will be published by Modern Music for New Singers: 21st...
Announcement of a new commission:
Emerson Eads has formally begun writing a cantata profana based on the life of Romeo, Juneau's Wolf for Chamber Choir & Chamber Orchestra. Librettist is Dave Hunsaker, and Maestro William Todd Hunt and The Orpheus Project commissioned the project. For performance...
Compositions
Mass for the Oppressed
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Song of the Sikuliaq
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Color of Gold
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Composition Catalogue
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