Emily Miclon

Emily Miclon is an active and passionate percussion performer and educator based in Columbia, Missouri. She attended Eastern Connecticut State University for her BA in Music Performance, where she took a large interest in pedagogy and musicology research, presenting at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in 2018 and 2019.

Having taught at high school programs in the Northeast, Emily continues her teaching at the University of Missouri where she is currently pursuing her MM in Percussion Performance and serves as the Percussion Graduate Teaching Assistant. During her time at Mizzou, she has received the Helen Mitchell and Nadeen Burkeholder Williams Award for Percussion and placed first in the Mid-Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy Collegiate Duo Competition in 2020.

Emily is a passionate proponent for commissioning new percussion works, and she especially enjoys non-western percussion studies and performing in chamber groups. Her primary teachers include Dr. Megan Arns and Dr. Jeff Calissi.