The home of professional classical singers and opera auditions
Forgot your password?
Enter your email address, and if you’re registered as a member of this site, we’ll send you a reset of your password via email.
Emily Jennings
Languages (fluent):
English
'L'amero, saro costante' (Il Re Pastore) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
'Nachtlied' - Felix Mendelssohn
'Silent Noon' - Vaughan Williams
'Three Early Songs' - George Crumb
'Trois melodies' - Olivier Messiaen
Credit: Ben Wulf
Credit: Ben Wulf
Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award Holder supported by the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Trust (2023)
Competitions
AESS - Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition - 2nd Prize (2024)
Brooks Van Der Pump English Song Competition - 1st Prize (2017)
'Emily Jennings' voice has both a kind of crystal-clear fragility and a self-assurance which, together with an inwardly fine acting, makes Meleagro/Tirsi a charismatic and somewhat subtle figure.' - Klassisk Musikk (Review of Handel's Atalanta, Orkester Nord, Barokkfest - Trondheim (2024)
“A feeling for song that cannot be taught” (Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition) (2017)
'The singing, particularly playful soprano Emily Jennings, is just glorious.' - Shyama Perera, MonkeyMattersTheatre (Review of Third Hand Opera's production of 'Puppet Lieder')
Emily is a British Soprano based in Catford, South East London. Described as 'a
singer with a feeling for song that cannot be taught' (John Mark Ainsley – adjudicator for the Brooks Van Der Pump English Song Competition 2017), Emily is
a Britten Pears Young Artist (cohort of 2023-24) as an Elizabeth Harwood Memorial
Award holder. Emily is also a SongEasel Young Artist (cohort of 2023-24). Emily graduated with Distinction from the Royal College of Music where she completed
both an undergraduate and master’s degree as an award holder supported by an
Alice Templeton award. Emily was awarded first prize for the Brooks Van Der Pump
English Song Competition during her studies.
Emily is a passionate performer of art song and loves nothing more than to curate
and perform recitals with collaborative musicians; she frequently performs in
London and beyond and relishes the opportunity to give lesser known works a
platform. Emily and her duo partner Emily Hoh are delighted to have been selected to compete in the 2024 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition this coming September.
Emily has a long love of folk music and was thrilled to make her solo
debut at Glastonbury Festival this year where she performed a self-accompanied
recital of traditional folk songs and English art songs on the Mandala Stage in the
Green Futures Field.
Emily is also a keen singer of choral music and has performed with many of the UK
and Europe's most exciting ensembles including the Utopia Orchestra and Choir,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Britten
Sinfonia and Voices, and the London Handel Orchestra and Singers.
Recent highlights include singing the role of Meleagro in Handel’s opera ‘Atalanta’
with Orkester Nord as part of Barrokfest, Trondheim as well as partaking in a song
masterclass with Roderick Williams as part of the SongEasel Young Artist
Programme with her duo partner Emily Hoh.
Upcoming engagements include the Aldeburgh Festival 2024 in which Emily will be
performing in the ensemble for Holst’s ‘Savatri’ and ‘Hymns from the Rig Veda’
with the Britten Sinfonia, as well as partaking in masterclasses with Gweneth Ann
Rand and Simon Lepper as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Emily
also looks forward to spending this summer in Salzburg where she will be
performing in the ensemble for the Utopia Orchestra and Choir for their
productions of St Matthew’s Passion (Bach) and Don Giovanni (Mozart) as part of
the Salzburger Festspiele.
Contact Emily Jennings
Any message that you send here will be checked by Audition Oracle for suitability (to filter out spam), and then forwarded to Emily Jennings.