Emily Duncan Wilson
ProducerEmily Duncan Wilson is a sound designer, producer and educator originally from New Hampshire.
She has worked with Interlochen Center for the Arts in various roles since 2015 with the Arts Academy, Arts Camp and IPR.
She previously served as the producer of "Classical Sprouts" and as IPR's digital content manager.
As a theatre artist, Emily has sound designed and assisted regionally at The Public Theater, McCarter Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Perelman Performing Arts Center, as well as others.
Emily holds an M.F.A from the Yale School of Drama and a B.A. from Smith College.
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Was that a bird or a violin? Fluttering wings, scratching feet, pecking beaks: Italian composer Ottorino Respighi captured these sounds and more in his piece for small orchestra called "The Birds" (or, in Italian, "Gli Uccelli"). -
This week on Kids Commute, we’re listening music written for the piano by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. -
Her music was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, she composed an opera, multiple works for orchestra, was an accomplished pianist herself, and wrote a very famous concertino for flute. We’re learning about French composer Cécile Chaminade and that famous flute concertino this week on Classical Sprouts! -
This week on Kids Commute, we’re listening to pop classics turned string quartets with the ensemble Vitamin String Quartet. -
Yo-Yo Ma has been playing the same Bach cello suite since he was only 4 years old, right as he started learning the cello. Now, he's using his fame (and performances of that same cello suite) to promote what he believes in. -
This week on Kids Commute, we’re listening to Rick Sowash's tasty musical suite, "A Little Breakfast Music." -
Composer Amy Beach was a lot of "firsts" - the first woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra, one of the first composers to train exclusively in the United States and more. -
This week on Kids Commute, we’re listening to music inspired by the moon! -
It's chord progression appears in countless pop songs, it's played at tons of weddings and repeats the same 8 notes over and over again… what is it? It’s Pachelbel’s Canon! We’ll get into what makes this piece so popular, and how to spot it in the wild this week on Classical Sprouts. -
This week of Kids Commute is all about the sun! We're listening to pieces of music inspired by sunrises, total solar eclipses, sunlight, sunbeams and more!
