Emma leads BSO’s The Aubergines, Exeter Family Orchestra with her fellow Associate, Hugh Nankivell and regularly performs with BSO Participate ensembles across the South West. She has led community choirs and has a violin teaching practice.

Emma specialises in playing new experimental music on her violin in many ensembles including internationally with Icebreaker. Closer to her Exeter home, Emma has found understated riches curating A Quiet Night In, music nights exploring the creative possibilities in quiet/silence with adventurous Devon musicians, sound artists and audiences.

Emma’s practice is driven by the climate and biodiversity emergency and her love of music. Her Exeter Sound Walks maps of her local habitat over one year were a turning point in Emma’s practice as a musician. Emma regularly leads Sound Walks for groups of curious listeners in all sorts of places. She composes works exploring different ways of situating human music-making within a broader kind of attention, resulting in a series of works co-created with people and our habitat.

Emma studied music at Manchester and York Universities.