Sybil Tutton Award (2019)

Rodney Gibson Early Music Prize - Patricia Routledge English Song Competition (2021)

John and Barbara Beaumont Bursary (2018)

Liz Chant Bursary (2018)

Emily Hodkinson steps out of the committed eight voice chorus to provide a memorable cameo as that rare thing, a politician with a conscience. (Opera Magazine) (2023)

It is amazing what difference a wig and cap can make. Having met Emily Hodkinson at a Young Artists event earlier in the year I was very struck by how different her Madame Larina was from the real Emily. This Larina was very poised and centred, cool almost and she had a Jane Austen-esque sense of floating through life unaware of the little dramas eddying round her. - Planet Hugill (2022)

Did the Festival Chorus capture the spirit of the work? Undoubtedly. There was an almost palpable sense of commitment so that at climazes, joined by the resplendent orchestra and the noble singing of mezzo Emily Hodkinson, the effect was thrilling. - William Ruff, Nottingham Evening Post (2019)

Rich-voiced mezzo-soprano Emily Hodkinson pushed the repetition-laden narrative along at a cracking pace.(Leeds Lieder Festival, Composers and Poets Showcase) - Richard Wilcocks, Write Out Loud (2017)

The four soloists (Ruth Provost, Emily Hodkinson, Adam Torrance and Geoff Williams) provided much elegantly beautiful singing. - William Ruff, Nottingham Evening Post (2017)

Wendy Goodson and Emily Hodkinson were clear and musicianly in their important contrasting arias. – Robert Gammon, York Press (2016)

Emily Hodkinson was particularly captivating in this role and her connection to the piece was evident to the audience throughout. (La Pucelle, April 2015) – Olivia Moss, Unknown Magazine (2015)

The amatory frustrations of four young Muscovite couples are excellently varied. Foremost among them are the nicely-balanced Sasha and Masha of Chris Murphy and Emily Hodkinson. (Paradise Moscow, Oct 2015) – Martin Dreyer, York Press (2015)

The young soloists sang with great commitment and conviction in a work that, although well- known and frequently performed, is not easy. (Nidderdale Messiah, Nov 2015) – Henry Pankhurst, Harrogate Advertiser (2015)

Nottingham-born mezzo-soprano Emily Hodkinson is a recent graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studied with Clare Shearer, and was the recipient of a Sybil Tutton Opera Award, the Ena Mitchell Scholarship and the Ulrike Wilson Scholarship. She graduated with a First-class honours degree in Music from the University of York, and completed a year of postgraduate study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before joining the opera school. She was the winner of the Rodney Gibson Early Music Prize at the 2021 Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition; the Liz Chant Bursary Competition; the John & Barbara Beaumont Bursary Competition and was a Selected Artist for Making Music UK.

Emily was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist for 2022, singing Madame Larina in the Young Artist performances of Eugene Onegin. Recent and future engagements include Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (Saffron Opera Group), Nobody/Somebody (Northern Ireland Opera), Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, cover Nerone and Ottavia The Coronation of Poppea (English Touring Opera) and cover Octavian Der Rosenkavalier (Saffron Opera Group). Further operatic roles include Nancy Albert Herring (New Palace Opera), Minskwoman Flight, Jenny Die Dreigroschenoper (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Spirit Dido & Aeneas (Ryedale Festival); Wellgunde Das Rheingold (Edinburgh Players Opera Group); Siegrune Die Walküre (Weekend Opera Projects); Sara Tobias and the Angel (Streetwise Opera); Nancy Albert Herring and Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia (Aspect Opera), Masha Paradise Moscow, La tasse Chinoise and L’écureuil L’enfant et les Sortilèges, and Sorceress Dido & Aeneas (University of York).

Emily is a keen concert soloist and recitalist, with recent engagements including Elgar's Sea Pictures (Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham), Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle (York Musical Society); Manor Opera’s Gala in the Garden, Beethoven’s Mass in C (London Oriana Choir), Bach's Cantatas with Glasgow Bach Cantata Project, Elgar’s Sea Pictures (Watford Youth Sinfonia) and Elgar’s The Music Makers with Nottingham Festival Chorus.

Emily is an experienced consort and choral singer, having sung with groups such as Britten Sinfonia Voices, the Dunedin Consort, the Carice Singers and Echo. She was a Fellow of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and a member of Genesis Sixteen, The Sixteen’s prestigious training programme led by Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. In 2018 she had the honour of being the first Female Alto to sing with the Men and Boys Choir at Southwell Minster, a landmark moment in the Minsters 900+ year history.

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