Dr. Emily Anna Bridges (1977), a native of New Hampshire, graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded a William Penn Fellowship and the Helen Weiss Prize for Vocal Composition. Her teachers there included Jay Reise, James Primosch, Anna Weesner, and Ingrid Arauco. She has presented her work at Haverford College and West Chester University and participated in readings by Network for New Music and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. She studied with Yehudi Wyner during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 2005. Anna holds a B.A. in Music from Colby College in Waterville, ME, where she studied composition with Jonathan Hallstrom, and was the winner of the Comparetti Music prize for composition. She later studied privately in Boston with composer and pianist John McDonald. During her time in New England, her pieces were performed in concert by ensembles such as the Colby Orchestra, the Arden String Quartet, and Musica Sacra. In addition to her performance life as a soprano in Early and 20th/21st Century styles, Anna teaches private composition, voice, and theory lessons. During her time as a doctoral candidate, she taught theory and musicianship courses at Penn. She has maintained her voice studio privately and as an instructor in the College House Program since she arrived in Philadelphia in 2002.