2026 State of the Art Prize, Vermont
2026 State of the Art Prize, Vermont
Emily Bate
Emily Bate
Emily Bate is a singer, composer and performer, interested in the radical potential of the human voice.
Music, Performing Arts, Theater
2026
About Emily Bate
Montpelier, VT
Emily Bate is a composer, singer, songleader and performance maker, with a particular interest in participatory singing experiences and performances driven by music. Recent work includes Wig Wag, a hybrid music-theater piece, performed by a cast of four in collaboration with the entire audience, and collaborations with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Ragnar Kjartansson, Erin Markey, and Patrick Costello. She runs Trust Your Moves, a queer and trans community chorus singing new and experimental vocal music. Bate is a 2021 Pew Fellow, and a 2022 ArtWorks Fellow, and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Her upcoming piece, Homo Economicus, explores utopian economics using dance music, lecture, striptease, and heaps of garbage.
Emily Bate is a composer, singer, songleader and performance maker, with a particular interest in participatory singing experiences and performances driven by music. Recent work includes Wig Wag, a hybrid music-theater piece, performed by a cast of four in collaboration with the entire audience, and collaborations with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Ragnar Kjartansson, Erin Markey, and Patrick Costello. She runs Trust Your Moves, a queer and trans community chorus singing new and experimental vocal music. Bate is a 2021 Pew Fellow, and a 2022 ArtWorks Fellow, and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Her upcoming piece, Homo Economicus, explores utopian economics using dance music, lecture, striptease, and heaps of garbage.