A CV which focuses on composition can be dowloaded here. One which includes teaching can be download here.

Montreal-based composer Emily Doolittle (b. 1972 Halifax, Nova Scotia) received her Bachelors Degree in composition from Dalhousie University, where her primary teacher was Dennis Farrell and her Masters Degree from Indiana University, where she studied with Don Freund. From 1997-99 she studied with Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding in Amsterdam with the support of a Fulbright fellowship and a grant from the Nova Scotia Arts Council. In 2007 she received her PhD in composition from Princeton University, where she studied with Barbara White, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, Peter Westergaard, and Paul Koonce. Her doctoral research was on bird and animal songs and their relationship to human music.

Along with composers Samuel Vriezen and Cynthie van Eiden, Emily was a founding and organizing member of the "Concert I t/m IV" composers collective and concert series in Amsterdam. Since 2004 she has been involved with the development of a new music festival in Mostar, Bosnia. Between 1992 and 2004 she was a participant in Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer's collaborative composition project And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon.

She has received support from the Bearns Prize, SCI, ASCAP, FIRST MUSIC, the Nova Scotia Arts Council, the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, the Netherland-America Foundation, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation of Canada, CBC, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Montreal Arts Council and the Canada Council, and has been commissioned to write for such ensembles and performers as Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, viola d'amorist Thomas Georgi, soprano Janice Jackson, pianist Eve Egoyan, Entropy, the New York University New Music Ensemble, Meduse, Alizé, and Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. Her book of 19 short piano pieces for children, “I Am…,” was published by Oceanna Music in 2007.

In the spring of 2001 Emily was composer-in-residence at Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 2003 with the Oregon East Symphony. She has also participated in residencies at the Banff Arts Centre, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell Colony, Ucross, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland.

Feb. 2008