Emma Koi is a flutist and educator whose career spans orchestral performance, collaboration, and wellness. She performs with Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, and is a substitute musician with The Florida Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and Brevard Symphony Orchestra. She previously held positions as Third Flute/Piccolo with the Florida Grand Opera, and Principal Flute with Festival City Symphony. She is an alumna of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, where she had the privilege of working closely with Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma on community engagement initiatives throughout Chicago. 

As a champion of new music and collaboration, Ms. Koi enjoys working across artistic boundaries to produce new work with dancers, composers, filmmakers and opera companies. As the founder of multidisciplinary ensemble Cadance Collective, she collaborated on projects with Present Music, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, DanceworksMKE, WildSpace Dance Company, and vocal music ensemble Aperi Animam. She has worked on new music projects with composer Anna Clyne, Access Contemporary Music, and ensembleNewSRQ, and as a chamber musician with Milwaukee Musaik and Frankly Music. 

Ms. Koi is Adjunct Professor of Flute at Seminole State College of Florida, and previously served on the faculty at Carroll University, Mount Mary University and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, teaching lessons in flute and courses in movement for musicians. Her students have won top awards in competitions for the Wisconsin Flute Festival, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and Civic Music Association competitions. She holds a Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University and Bachelors degrees in music and dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her teachers include Alberto Almarza, Jeanne Baxtresser and Caen Thomason-Redus. 

Ms. Koi is Yoga Studio Manager at Magnolia Yoga & Wellness Center in Longwood, Florida, where she develops programming in yoga, sound meditation, and community wellness initiatives.

Emma Koi lives in Central Florida with her husband and two young children. She is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and is the founder of Mother Maker, a podcast and online magazine featuring interviews with artists who are mothers.