Emily Owen is a soprano and animateur based in London
About
Having graduated from Durham University with a First Class Honours degree in Music, Emily Owen went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, completing an Extended Artist Masters with Distinction in 2016 and becoming a GSMD Ensemble Artist Fellow with early music ensemble Ceruleo in 2017/18. She currently studies with Tim Evans-Jones. Emily leads a varied freelance career as a consort singer and soloist, performing regularly with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Dame Emma Kirkby’s Dowland Works, Apollo5 a cappella group and Britten Sinfonia Voices and is a regular soprano at St Bride’s Church Fleet Street and the West London Synagogue. She is a Live Music Now musician, alongside her lutenist duo partner James Bramley, and performs regularly in care homes and SEND settings.
Future performances include
Future collaborations include an ongoing UK tour of Burying the Dead with Ceruleo, a theatre show written by Clare Norburn about the life of Baroque composer Henry Purcell, which will tour to Ryedale Festival, Brighton Early Music Festival and York Christmas Festival in 2019. Emily will also play the role of Iris in the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra’s upcoming European tour of Handel’s Semele, including performances at La Scala and the historically restored Alexandra Palace Theatre. She will also join the Monteverdi Choir in a tour of Purcell, Scarlatti and Carissimi in Russia and South America in the Autumn of 2019.
Media
Diary
21st August, 8.30pm
St Robert, France
Monteverdi and Friends
In Capellis
22nd August, 8.30pm
Hautefort, France
Monteverdi and Friends
In Capellis
23rd August, 5pm
Ste Trie, France
Monteverdi and Friends
In Capellis
6th September, 10.30pm
Ateneul Roman, Bucharest
Gluck Iphigenie et Tauride
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
7th September, 10.30pm
Ateneul Roman, Bucharest
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
26th September, 7pm
Zaryadye Concert Hall, Moscow
Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Carissimi
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
27th September, 8pm
St Petersburg Philharmonia
Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Carissimi
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
1st October, 7.30pm
Slovak Philharmonic, Bratislava
Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Carissimi
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
16th October, 7.15pm
Gray’s Inn Chapel, London
George Frederic Handel Messiah
Choir of Gray’s Inn Chapel
31st October, 8pm
St George’s Church, Brighton
Burying the Dead
Ceruleo
2nd November, 3pm
St Paul’s Church, Brighton
BREMF Live! Showcase
Melismata
Animateur
Alongside her soprano career, Emily is a passionate educator, working as an animateur in the UK and abroad
She is a member of the VCM Foundation education team and leads schools workshops and Young Leader programmes around the UK and across Europe with a cappella group Apollo5.
Emily works as an animateur for The Bach Choir and leads the Baroque Central education project at Handel & Hendrix in London as well as designing and leading workshops in collaboration with the RNIB and Royal College of Music. She is a a choral practitioner for the Voices Foundation and leads teacher training sessions around the UK.
Emily is a visiting singing teacher at Harrow School and has a small studio of private pupils in Bow, East London.
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