Screen Music
Featured below are selected screen music works that Emma has composed and produced.
Showreel
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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.
The Studio
Emma operates out of her own studio based in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Emma Greenhill is an award-winning Australian composer, arranger, producer and violinist. She completed a Bachelor of Music (composition) at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2017. In 2021, Emma won the APRA AMPCOS Madeby composition prize, the 2022 Young Composer Award, the 2017 Watermark composition prize and the “best original score” at the 2022 Made in the West film festival for the short Leopard (credit shared with composer Ali Zoghi) and is nominated for a 2024 Screen Music Award with The DA's Office for Masterchef. Emma is a classically trained violinist who studied under Marina Marsden at the Sydney Conservatorium. She also plays viola, cello, double bass and piano and regularly performs and records strings for film and TV.
Emma currently freelances in TV and advertising and has worked for companies including Heckler Sound, The DA’s Office, Rumble Studios, 13CO and Smith and Western with brands including AMPOL Australia, Connoisseur Ice Cream, MAS insurance and KPMG Australia. With composers from the DA’s Office, Emma composed music for the feature documentary “Rose Gold”, the latest season of MasterChef Australia and is currently working on a new feature documentary. Emma’s concert music has been commissioned by Phoenix Collective, the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), APRA AMCOS, AMEB and many more. Emma’s has also worked as an orchestrator/arranger for The Voice Australia, Channel 7’s Spotlight, Home and Away, Triple J’s “Like a Version”, Guy Sebastian, Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks) and Damien Leith. Emma's diverse musical language allows her to shift seamlessly between composing in commercial settings, to composing introspective screen music. Her music is characterised by a sense of nostalgia with a modern edge. ai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks) and Damien Leith. Emma's diverse musical language allows her to shift seamlessly between composing in commercial settings, to composing introspective screen music. Her music is characterised by a sense of nostalgia with a modern edge.
