Emma Peaurt grew up in North Wales. After reading music at Durham University she completed postgraduate studies at the RNCM. She studies with Pat Hay.

Emma has appeared with Opera North at the Leeds Fuse Festival 2006, the RNCM Baroque Ensemble, RNCM String Ensemble and the RNCM Wind Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. Recently she sang chorus for a Naxos recording of Tom Jones; worked in the chorus of Scottish Opera in their productions of Manon, Dve Vdovy, Falstaff and Lucia di Lammermoor and has also taken part in masterclasses with Jane Eaglen and Lynne Dawson. Emma has recenty been accepted as an Ad Hoc singer with the BBC Singers.

In recent operatic performances she has been seen as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) for RNCM/Richmondshire Subscription Concert Series; Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) for St John’s Opera Company and Josephine (HMS Pinafore) for St Helens Gilbert & Sullivan Society.

Works she has performed as an oratorio soloist include: Mozart’s C minor mass; Handel’s Samson; Bach’s St John Passion for Leicester Bach Choir; Poulenc’s Gloria & Rutter’s Requiem; Haydn’s Creation; Tippett’s 5 Negro Spirituals from A child of our Time at the Bridgewater Hall for the Hallé Choir, Handel’s Messiah; Rutter’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Requiem.

She combines this with working in the Oran duo giving recitals at Blackburn and Ripon Cathedrals, Durham University, Wesley Chapel Harrogate, Heaton Hall, St Ann’s Church Manchester, Bury Parish Church and Gallery Oldham. Emma also works with the Baroque trio Consort 1700.

Emma regularly sings at various Central London churches and is available for weddings and funerals as well as concerts, oratorio and opera.