Denver, Colorado born Xavier Emmanuel (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist/scholar and PhD candidate in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry at the Harvard University Department of Music. His work as a musician, scholar, and multi-hyphenate artist situates music as a lens to explore sonic and systemic organizations of labor, emotion, movement, behavior, and bodies in time. 

Emmanuel’s creative work has been featured in solo and group performances and exhibitions throughout the wider area of New York City, at the Harvard Art Museums, Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Princeton University’s School of Architecture, Nigeria’s 2024 Lagos Biennial, and across the greater area of his home state of Colorado among other national and international venues.

Emmanuel has given lectures about his research at New York University, St. Olaf College, and el Centro de Estudos e Revalorização da Música Angolana. His creative work has received awards and recognition from Lyrical Lemonade, the American Institute for Graphic Arts, the New York University Alpine Fellowship, and Colorado State University among others.