About
Amelia Horney (b. 2001) is a New York based Jewish-American lesbian composer, songwriter, and visual artist whose work explores tenderness, grit, and both the most hopeful and hopeless dimensions of human emotion. She finds other art-forms, concepts about the human condition, intimate details of her surroundings, and drawing from her own experiences to be deeply meaningful. Amelia is a highly collaborative person, one of the main goals of her work being to connect with other artists, whether she is working with performers, scoring films, or writing about a piece of art. Through her poetry and music, Amelia loves to explore her own relationship with her queerness, mental health, and her experience recovering from alcoholism. She is a huge advocate for those who identify with these experiences, and aims to provide hope and solidarity through her music. She firmly believes that art does not exist in a vacuum, and her current priority is to speak out against the injustices happening throughout the world, hypocrisy, . When she is not composing, you can find Amelia making light installations, attending concerts and shows, going to art museums, singing in choir, messing around with makeup, lifting weights, and playing with her adorable Sphynx cat, Kiwi.
Amelia has participated in summer festivals such as Curtis Summerfest Young Artist’s Summer Program, Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artist Composition Program, Atlantic Music Festival, The Lake George Music Festival Composer Institute, and Del Mar International Composer’s Symposium, where she has had several works premiered by faculty and peers. Amelia has had works premiered by professional ensembles such as Hub New Music and The Rhythm Method String Quartet. She has attended the NYU Screen Scoring Summer Program. Amelia earned her Bachelor of Music in Composition (Class of 2024) at the University of Southern California,Thornton School of Music and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at Mannes School of Music at The New School. She has studied privately with notable composers such as Saad Haddad, Alyssa Weinberg, Andrew Norman, Veronika Krausas, Ted Hearne, Camae Ayewa, and Nina Young, and she is currently studying with Nina Shekhar.