Emilie Conway

Emilie Conway is an award winning vocal jazz artist who performs in Ireland and internationally. Her practice is multi-disciplinary with music to the fore. Inspiration for her music comes from three main areas of exploration: Jazz & art/literature, jazz & children, jazz & disability. In performance, Emilie weaves together original compositions, spoken word, and both improvised and structured musical passages.

This multifaceted approach has garnered international recognition, notably including acknowledgement from the United Nations for her contributions to International Jazz Day, highlighting the global impact of her unique artistic vision. New York’s global centre for culture, The 92nd Street Y, also commissioned her to deliver a series of lectures, The Musical Art of Piet Mondrian.

In Walked Piet: Upcoming Album Launch
The National Gallery commissioned Emilie to respond to the work of pioneering modern artist, Piet Mondrian in 2020. Lockdowns facilitated extended research which you can listen to in two podcasts produced by the National Gallery, but prevented the development and sharing of the musical work. Emilie launched the first single from the upcoming album, In Walked Piet, in October 2025. Now, finally, Emilie is delighted to launch the full musical work inspired by the life and work of Piet Mondrian with Walked Piet, on June 19 with Johnny Taylor, piano and Barry Donohue, double bass at the United Arts Club.

Solid Space Sound
Informed by her living experience of disability and her passion for the arts, Emilie drives innovation in making art and cultural spaces more inclusive and engaging for all. Drawing on her own artistic competencies, she creates musical, lyrical, movement, sculptural and tactile experiences for blind and visually impaired audiences. She calls this process Solid, Space, Sound, a multi-sensory approach, with music to the fore, which has been found to have broad appeal for young and old, disabled and non-disabled. Emilie has adapted Solid Space Sound for the National Gallery of Ireland, the Royal Hibernian Academy, The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre, the Irish Architecture Foundation and more She is currently working on a deeper phase of research and development of Solid Space Sound in partnership with the Project Arts Centre supported by a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Emilie has performed across Ireland, the US, and Europe at festivals and venues including, Belles Artes, Santo Domingo, Carnegie Hall’s Migrations Festival NYC, The Village Trip Greenwich Village Festival, the Cornelia St. Cafe, The American Irish Historical Society, Sligo International Jazz Festival, The American Writers’ Museum Chicago, Ranelagh Arts Festival, The Bray Jazz Festival, Galway Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and many more.

Emilie's work has been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Disability Ireland, Create, Jazz Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy, The National Gallery, Improvised Music Company, The Washington Square Hotel, NYC, Dublin City Council, The Ark, Project Arts Centre, KodaKultur, Denmark, The Anna Lindh Foundation, Jazzomania, the Dominican Republic, Creative Scotland, Imaginate Scotland.

As founder of Disabled Artists, Disabled Academics, DADA, she has proven herself to be an effective advocate, advisor and change-maker in advancing disability rights, particularly in the Arts Sector.