Commissioned Composers

2026 NDMTA Commissioned Composer: 

Emily Driscoll is a mother, pianist composer, professor, vocalist, music director, piano instructor, conductor, singer/songwriter, and arranger. A native of Williston, North Dakota with over 20 years of experience in music, performance, and drama, she holds a Bachelors Degree in music with a piano performance emphasis, and Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from North Dakota State University. Driscoll also studied film composition at  McNally College of Music in St. Paul, MN, under the instruction of Sean Mac Mahon, a composer, ghostwriter, and orchestrator of many successful films scores, and Adi Yeshaya, an arranger for Prince and the TV show "The Voice".

Emily is a freelance composer and singer/songwriter with scores featured in sixteen nationally published audiobooks, a piano book featuring twenty-seven of her original compositions, and three albums featuring her skills as a pianist, lyricist, arranger, and vocalist, the most recent of which being the album "The Other Side" which was adapted into a musical at the University of Sioux Falls, SD. She has performed at venues nationally and internationally, including at the Gospel Music Association of Canada in Calgary, Alberta and at the Breakforth Event in Edmonton, Alberta.

Emily is currently an Adjunct Professor at Williston State College, the Director of Music and Marketing at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and the Music Director at Faith Methodist Church. She also serves as the director of Williston Concert Chorale and is co-director of the Williston Youth Choir.

When Emily is not busy with her eclectic assortment of commitments, she enjoys being a stay-at-home mother to her 2-year old son, Theodore, and listening to classical MPR with her husband, Alec.