RACKEMANN, Emili

Emili Rackemann is an Australian composer. Raised in remote rural Australia, far from the traditional centres of classical music, Emili’s artistic identity was formed on 25,000 acres of rural landscape - a world of distance, silence, and open space. She began piano at four and was composing by age eleven, guided less by external influence and more by an innate compulsion to create. She later undertook formal studies at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and worked with Korean-born Australian pianist Young-Ah Hauser. Alongside her compositional work, Emili is an accomplished transcriber and arranger.