Emily Wells

Forging a bridge between pop and chamber music, polymathic composer, producer, and video artist Emily Wells builds songs from deliberate strata of vocals, synths, drums, piano, string and wind instruments. Wells has toured extensively throughout the world, including performances at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, Sundance Film Festival, and the National Gallery of Art. She is a 2022 NYU/CBA/National Sawdust Toulmin Fellow, and a 2020 NYFA grant recipient. In 2024 she scored the critically acclaimed play “The Fires” by Raja Feather Kelly which premiered at Soho Rep in NYC as well as the short film “Front of the Room” for the New York City Ballet. Wells’s evocative music (described as “thrilling” and "a perfect snow globe" by Pitchfork) and performances (called “quietly transfixing” by The New York Times) impel listeners to be attuned. Her latest album, Regards to the End, explores the AIDS crisis and its lessons for climate action. A work of radical empathy, it foregrounds the power of art, critique, and care to connect and perhaps redeem us.