About

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Emma Henrike Ebmeyer is a composer based in Salzburg, Austria and Hamburg Germany.

Emma’s compositions have been played across three continents by ensembles such as the OENM, NAMES, Neoquartet, and Cantando Admont. Her electronic works have been showcased in diverse settings, including the Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, ZKM Karlsruhe, the planetary display Klagenfurt and theater productions in Salzburg. Emma has actively participated in renowned festivals such as Mixtur, Suena, Bled Contemporary Music Week and Limina. She has attended classes, lectures, workshops with prominent composers such as Cathy van Eck, Katharina Rosenberger, Pierluigi Billone, Frédéric Durieux, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong and Sam Auinger.

In 2024 and 2025 she was awarded the "Leistungsstipendium" of the Mozarteum University. In the summer of 2024, Emma was awarded the "With Dylan on the Road" travel scholarship by the Mozarteum Society, enabling her to take a five-week trip through Europe. Since 2023 she has been a scholarship recipient of the "Stiftung Benno Kittl". In 2025 she was a finalist for the Ö1 Talentbörse Kompositionspreis.

Emma Ebmeyer was born in Hamburg Germany where she started taking composition lessons at the age of eight. Later she continued under Dr. Arvid Ong. From 2020 to 2024, Emma pursued a bachelor’s degree in composition at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, studying with Kurt Estermann, Achim Bornhöft, and Laure Hiendl. She is enrolled in the Master’s program at the same institution, continuing her studies with Achim Bornhöft. Currently she is spending an Erasmus year in Stockholm, Sweden studying with Per Martesson.