Emlyn is the co-director and flutist of Music in the American Wild, an initiative that celebrates American people, places, and stories through the commission and performance of new music. Since 2016 she has commissioned nearly 40 new thematic works for the American Wild Ensemble and premiered them at national parks, historic sites, and other unconventional venues across the country in collaboration with an ever-evolving roster of wonderful community partners. Recent projects have found American Wild Ensemble performing in a sunny Hawaiian lava field, 30 stories underground in Kentucky caves, and everywhere in between.

Emlyn’s work with American Wild Ensemble has been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, Mid-America Arts Alliance, The Aaron Copland Fund, New Music USA, and the Missouri Humanities Council, among others. The ensemble’s first album, Music in the American Wild, which combines original music with vivid video footage from seven national parks, was released in fall 2018 on the ArtistShare label.

In addition to her work with American Wild Ensemble, Emlyn is the Artistic Director of Pro Musica. Pro Musica, based in Joplin, Missouri, has provided outstanding classical music concerts and education events in Joplin and the surrounding four-state region of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma for over four decades.

As a new music performer, Emlyn has served as flutist with Ensemble Signal, Alarm Will Sound, the Slee Sinfonietta, and Alla Balena Ensemble. Additionally, she performs regularly with her husband, cellist Daniel Ketter, as tuo duo, which aims to commission and perform new flute and cello duo repertoire, including new concert music for youth audiences.

As an educator, Emlyn currently serves as the Interim Instructor of Flute at the UMKC Conservatory and has previously served as the flute instructor at several State University of New York institutions – Buffalo, Geneseo, and Oswego – where she has led flute ensembles and performed regularly with resident faculty ensembles. Emlyn has also served as Career Advisor at Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership. Prior to her appointment at UMKC she taught in the music department at Missouri State University.

An active member of the broader flute community, Emlyn is a frequent judge for regional and national competitions and currently serves as the Secretary of the Kansas City Flute Association. She has previously served as Flute Events Reporter for the National Flute Association, Grants Chair or the Flute New Music Consortium, and Program Chair for the Rochester Flute Association. Emlyn presents regularly on community-centered project design and development, including recent talks at Eastman School of Music, University of Maryland, and Penn State University.

Additional community-focused work includes Emlyn’s five seasons with Sunset Concerts, a summer chamber music series in Rochester, NY, that she co-founded and co-directed from 2014-2018.  Sunset Concerts offered free, high-quality performances to Rochester audiences in unique city venues, in partnership with The Landmark Society of Western New York, and provided performance opportunities to over 100 early career musicians in the area.

Emlyn co-hosts and co-produces New Music Listening Club, a podcast dedicated to consuming, sharing, and enjoying new music through attentive listening and book club-style discussions with guest panelists.

Emlyn received her doctorate from Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Bonita Boyd, and holds further degrees from Eastman and University of Michigan. Additional influential teachers include Dr. Brooks de Wetter-Smith and Amy Porter.