Emma Greenhill

 

CLIENTS I’VE worked with

 
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Screen Music

Featured below are selected screen music works that Emma has composed and produced.

 

Music composed by Emma Greenhill on behalf of Heckler Sound


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Arranging
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Orchestration

 

Featured below are a selection of arranging/orchestration jobs Emma has worked on

Video from Damien Leith’s Roy Orbison Orchestrated Concert at QPAC

 

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Works

Featured below are selected works and commissions that Emma has composed.

 

The collaborative work “Hope” which I composed the music for, Monique Mangano choreographed and Adam Robins filmed and edited.

 

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 String Recording

Emma is classically trained violinist and violist. Additionally, she can record cello and double bass.
Featured below are examples of Emma’s string recordings.

Orchestral

Orchestral strings offer heavy layering of 6 -10 recordings per part. I use different microphones and miking techniques here to reflect the style of what it is I am recording.

Chamber

Chamber strings offer light layering of 1 - 5 recordings per part.

String quartet

String quartet is only one recording per part. These recordings are done more close miced and intimate than in an orchestral setting, and I utilise more expressive playing. There isn’t an example below, however double bass could be added for a string quintet option.

Solo

These are all solo instrument recordings. With solo recordings, I get much closer to the mic and always record in a cardioid, directional pattern.

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The Studio

Emma operates out of her own studio based in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

 
 
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Emma is an award-winning Australian composer, arranger, producer and violinist who specialises in orchestration and string recording. Emma's diverse musical language allows her to shift seamlessly between composing in a contemporary classical performance space, to writing commercial music in advertising, from arranging an orchestra for live TV to producing introspective screen music. Emma's experience working across many disciplines and industries gives her music a sense of nostalgia with a modern edge. 

Emma works regularly as an orchestral arranger and records orchestral strings from her studio. She has arranged and/or recorded strings for The Voice Australia, The ARIA awards, The AACTA awards, Channel 7 Spotlight "ABBA” tribute, Channel 7 Spotlight "Adele” tribute, Channel 7 Spotlight "Olivia Newton-John" tribute, Channel 7's "Home and Away", Guy Sebastian's national tour, Damien Leith, Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks) and triple J's "Like A Version". Emma recently arranged an orchestral show of Roy Orbison songs with Australian idol winner Damien Leith, which has been performed at Hamer Hall Melbourne and QPAC Brisbane, with performances coming up at the State Theatre Sydney, and Canberra Theatre.

Joe Melson - songwriter of Roy Orbison's ‘Crying’ and ‘Only the Lonely’ - has said Emma's orchestral arrangements are “the best I have heard since working with Roy Orbison".

Emma completed a Bachelor of Music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2017. Emma has been awarded the 2021 APRA AMCOS Madeby composition prize, the 2022 Young Composer Award, the 2017 Watermark composition prize, and was selected as a composer for the commissioning project "The ANAM set". Emma's work has been commissioned by director Rhys Day, Damien Leith, James Blackford, PLC, Trinity Grammar School, Karen North, AMEB and several times by Karen Carey through the Symphony for Life foundation.

Recently, Emma has been working as a freelance composer for the creative powerhouse "Heckler Sound". Emma is also currently working on a commission for One Music in collaboration with The Royal Academy of Dance and Monique Mangano, a new work for the Symphony for Life foundation, James Blackford, Karen North and PLC.