About

Clio Em (Clio Montrey) is a composer, writer, singer, ulti-instrumentalist and gamedev who weaves imaginary worlds. Her genre-defying works blur the borders between pop, classical, folkctronica, and science fiction.

“The songs are very well written… intelligent and inspired… if you’re curious about what type of music a child of the 21st-century can create, follow her, step by step.”

– Maurice Du Berger, reviewing Gravity Wing for I Care if You Listen

Clio is a quintessential indie creator and often carries out every step of the musical creative process, from writing the music and text to sampling, recording, producing, and live performance.

She has brought her Gravity Wing novel and soundtrack around the world, including Comiccons Montréal and Ottawa, as well as Brisbane’s 2High Festival 2016. Clio has received numerous awards for her musical creation work, including several competitive composition grants from the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture, as well as the Alice and Betty Schultz Scholarship for her AIRSHIPS project from The Banff Centre. She is an alumna of McGill University, MUK (the Vienna Conservatory, and MDW (the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

In addition to her own compositions, Clio has sung on many of the world’s great stages as well as for film and television, on choirs for projects like Bear McCreary’s soundtrack for the new Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Clio is the producer for upcoming indie title Dungeons of Hinterberg (Microbird Games). She is passionate about game worldbuilding and wrote the chapter Building Fantasy Worlds Through Music for the book The Magic of Games (Edition Donau-Universität Krems). She has presented on musical worldbuilding in games at various conferences, such as Coding Medieval Worlds (University of Vienna) and Game Dev Days Graz (University of Graz). She was also on the research team of Barbara Lüneburg’s project TransCoding/What if?, a project about participatory art, based at the Kunstuni Graz (KUG).

As a member of the award winning Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Clio has sung in staged operas at the since 2018 and at venues ranging from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to the Vienna State Opera. Her opera chorus work over several seasons at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien includes a filmed production of Beethoven’s Fidelio (directed by Christoph Waltz) and work with renowned stage directors as Amélie Niermayer, Nikolaus Habjan, Calixto Bieito, Lotte de Beer, Andrea Breth, Torsten Fischer, Claus Guth, and Christof Loy, among others.

Clio’s portfolio can be found here: creative work

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