Emily Buckley is a Computer Science and Music major from West Friendship, Maryland. She began playing the flute when she was 8 years old and the alto saxophone at age 11. Her father, a retired trombonist from the US Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors, sparked her love for jazz. She has pursued jazz by playing alto saxophone in jazz ensembles in middle and high school, in addition to her involvement in wind ensembles on flute. With her high school jazz band, she had to opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center, Jazz a Juan, Jazz a Vienne, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazzhaus Freiburg, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. She is currently the flute section leader in the UVa Wind Ensemble, plays in the UVa Flute Ensemble, and studies flute with Kelly Sulick. Emily hopes to use this opportunity as a Miller Arts Scholar to explore ways to combine her love for flute, saxophone, jazz, and classical music in her studies and performance at UVa.