Emma Della Rossa is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter, flutist, and educator. She is currently pursuing a degree in classical flute and music education at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, studying flute in the studio of Stephen Tam. As a flutist Emma has performed in the Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival, The OMFA Provincial Finals, the York Region Music Alive Festival, and most recently the FMUA Benefit Concert, and Faculty of Music Student Composer Concert. As an educator she strives to provide students with a holistic approach to music education. In incorporating a variety of musical genres and modes of instruction into her pedagogy she hopes to lead students to discover their own passions and personal connections to music, as well as skills that transcend far beyond the music classroom. As a singer-songwriter, her original music combines influences from indie-pop, classical, ambient, and jazz genres tied together with layers of vocal harmonies and introspective lyricism. Driven by her passion to collaborate with other musicians and create music that expresses powerful messages, Emma’s debut original EP will be released in 2022, exploring themes of vulnerability and resilience in regards to mental health issues.
Earth (Takatsugu Muramatsu・村松崇継)
Emma Della Rossa x Hibiki
“I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the Hibiki Project! This collaboration definitely sent me down the rabbit hole of listening to so many beautiful pieces of flute music written by Japanese composers. Myself and Jayne eventually chose to perform the piece “Earth” by Takatsugu Muramatsu. I think this piece is so fitting given that we are slowly starting to see the return of spring this month. The main theme of the piece is very evocative and the way it develops in it’s repetition throughout the piece makes me picture the hints of growth that occur at the end of winter, eventually blossoming to life. This piece, “Earth”, definitely ties into the Hibiki Project’s meaning of ‘resonance’ with the message that we are all connected to something deeper.”