Emi Ferguson

I am so incredibly honored and filled with gratitude to have been awarded a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant alongside these amazingly inspiring fellow awardees @evrenozelpiano @bokyungbyun @isidorestringquartet @ninabernat_bass I’m especially grateful to my wonderful friend and @runningamoc colleague @aucoincomposer who joined me for a performance of 17th century composer Isabella Leonarda’s, Sonata Duodecima in a style made for the nights event! I can’t imagine a more gracious and generous musical partner 😍 and I feel so lucky to share the stage with Matt. Thank you so so much to everyone for your support. This is a dream and I’m still pinching myself! Pictured… 🌟Evren Ozel, piano 🌟Bokyung Byun, guitar 🌟Me! 🌟Isidore String Quartet 🌟Nina Bernat, bass 📸 Jennifer Taylor

A little Sunday morning Bach - The sublime Andante from J.S. Bach’s Sonata for flute and continuo in E minor, BWV 1034. Performed live on period instruments.

Liza Lim - Bioluminescence, for solo flute [2019] 🐠🦑🐡🐙🐟 I’m not sure I will ever know what it feels like to have a bioluminescent deep-ocean creature oscillate on my hand, but this piece might be as close as I get! Liza Lim calls for a variety of extended #flute techniques that plunge you into the depth of the ocean and conjure up those mysterious creatures that reign in the darkness. 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠 If you don’t know @lizalimcomposer ‘s work check it out - especially the incredible works she has written for rockstar @clairechaseflute (we are not worthy!!!) This performance was filmed live amongst the sculptures of Christopher Cairns in a series curated by Michael Hersch. #newmusic #contemporarymusic #bioluminescence

An unforgettable evening at @frickcollection with @reginald.mobley.countertenor and @emiferguson and @rachellviolin . Performing Sancho’s music in celebration of the Gainsborough portrait being on display was a seriously special day. @dougballiett @dusanbalarin @colemanplayscello @czellert @elliotfigg Photos Courtesy The Frick Collection. Photography by Cris Sunwoo. Deepest thanks to @jezwaldo

This Sunday in NYC at @frickcollection !! We are so excited to be performing the music of Ignatius Sancho IN THE SAME BUILDING as the portrait painted of him by Thomas Gainsborough. What an honor!! Don’t miss me, @rachellviolin @reginald.mobley.countertenor @ruckusearlymusic @czellert @elliotfigg @dusanbalarin @premoevan @colemanplayscello @elliotfigg Paul Morton tear up the dance floor and break hearts with Sancho’s incredible country dances and airs alongside trio sonatas of Handel, all thanks to the one and only @jezwaldo 🥳🥳🥳

#100daysofpractice day 94. Reading figured bass with Emi Ferguson. Another from the @farplayapp session yesterday with @emiferguson : 18th-century composer Bonporti’s Invention in C minor, which only exists in figured bass form — meaning there’s only a melody, a bass line, and chord symbols. So I’m improvising the piano part here, which I’ll be playing on clavichord this summer at the @oregonbachfestival with Emi playing baroque flute. This is such a great repertoire choice from Emi: since the composition simply doesn’t include that much information, freedom is built in. #musiclife #practice #multidisciplinary

#100daysofpractice day 93. FarPlay practice Brooklyn - Millerton with @emiferguson . I’ve known Emi Ferguson for a few years now, and one of the things that always impresses me, aside from her great musicianship, is her openness to new ideas. In our projects together, we’ve focused on baroque music, but today we tried something new: total free improvisation, 100 miles apart, using @farplayapp . Maybe we’ll bring a little of this to our clavichord-flute concerts this summer at @oregonbachfestival , who knows? #musiclife #practice #multidisciplinary

Grateful to New York Magazine and Justin Davidson for calling out our concert this Sunday, AIRS TO THE THRONE, at the @themorganlibrary as one of their must see events in New York this week! Featuring rockstars @caitlynkoester , @lucinemusaelian , and @rachellviolin performing songs unheard for the past three centuries. 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 I first became obsessed with French airs de cour as a student at the Juilliard School. Within the genre were love songs, comedy, and drama - the pop songs of the court of Louis XIV performed both in his bedroom and at his lavish gatherings. I became so enamored that I re-designed a selection of my favorite airs de cour as my 2017 project Amour Cruel, re-thinking them as if 21st century female singer-songwriters were the court composers for Louis XIV. Years later, I began to discover that there were women in the time of Louis XIV who were writing airs de cour, their work largely forgotten for the past few hundred years. Still only available in manuscript, these works had never been performed or recorded. Determined to change that, I began re-engraving and programming their works. As I delved deeper, I was blown away to find nearly 150 airs de cour written by women in the early 18th century - many, with vague attributions, their names reduced to initials or lost altogether. Who were these women? How had their works survived in the archives but remained unheard for centuries? The deeper I dug, the more I realized how much had been overlooked, and how excited I was to give this music new life. We are so excited to share this music possibly for the first time since it was written. little may be known about these composers, but their music speaks to their wit, talent, and bad-assery!!

23,695 miles!!! Here’s the past few weeks of concert life in fast-forward. ✈️🎶 An absolutely wild spring of travel and so many beautiful moments sharing music with inspiring colleagues and friends along the way. Grateful… and very excited to not get on a plane for a little bit. 🥱

A total temperature and music whirlwind this month with some amazing people in incredible places!! #tourlife #expertpacker

Very happy to receive the printed edition of my “Three Pieces” Op. 13 written for flute and piano (dedication: @emiferguson ) from @schottmusic ; Both digital & printed editions are available at Schott Music’s official website. Looking forward to hearing more flautists performing it! #flute #flutemusic #fluteplayer #piano #chambermusic

First off! New release with @ashleyjacksonharp - Arooj Aftab’s Udhero Na! And some fun shows coming up! March 5th Solo flute recital at @hermitageartistretreat for the Ruth E Crosby recital series @selbygardens in Sarasota March 7th @the_nynme performs for @music_ontheedge in Pittsburgh March 8th Composer workshop at University of Pittsburgh March 20 & 21 Boston Early Music Festival at the Magdeburg Telemann Festival, performing Telemann’s Don Quichotte March 22 Boston Early Music Festival featuring Amanda Forsyth at the Magdeburg Telemann Festival March 29 Airs to the Throne I’m super excited about this one! Bringing back the forgotten airs de cour of women in the French court of Louis XIV & XV. Produced by my ensemble Exquisite Corpse at the Morgan Library and featuring @rachellviolin @caitlynkoester @lucinemusaelian April 2 On the hinge of modernity I got to curate a show for @lincolncenter and @runningamoc featuring two of my favorite composers Castello and Luciano Berio