ABOUT EMILY

Scottish soprano Emily Wishart graduated from the Royal College of Music in July 2025 with a Master of Performance (Vocal), studying under the tutelage of Ben Johnson and Caroline Dowdle. Emily’s studies at the RCM were generously supported with awards from the James Caird Trust, the Scottish International Education Trust, the Robertson Trust and the Kathleen Trust, and as an RCM Scholar. She previously earned her Bachelor of Music (Hons) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021, where she worked closely with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as part of the Associate Artist programme.

Recent opera highlights include singing the roles of Belinda in Dido and Aeneas at the Northern Chords Festival and Zerlina in the Brunswick Vocal Arts Concert Highlights of Don Giovanni. Emily also performed several roles in the RCM Opera Scenes productions, such as Amore (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Sandrina (La finta giardiniera), Ernestine (Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le…) and Ginevra (Ariodante). Whilst at the RCS, Emily’s roles in the Opera Scenes included Emmie in Albert Herring, Flora in Turn of the Screw, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Madam Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor. At the Oxenfoord International Summer School in 2022, Emily played the role of Tytania in an extract from Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

On the concert platform, Emily recently gave a solo afternoon recital at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, presenting a programme of Scottish songs. She is committed to championing Scots language in classical music, most recently collaborating with composer Molly Arnuk to create Mary’s Song for two sopranos and recorder, set to a poem by Marion Angus. This autumn, she will work with Arnuk again on a new piece inspired by her native Scotland, continuing her passion for performing new music. This November, she will compete in the first Scottish Singing Competition at the Caledonian Club, Belgravia.

Emily is also an experienced ensemble singer, having recently sung with the RCM Baroque Orchestra under Ashley Solomon in performances of Bach Cantatas in Oxford and London; with the National Youth Choir of Scotland at the Edinburgh International Festival, and with Les Sirènes female chamber choir. Earlier in her career, she performed with NYCoS under Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms) and at the Carnegie Hall, New York.

Alongside her performing career, Emily is a dedicated educator specialising in the Kodály method. She has taught for the National Youth Choir of Scotland as YMI West Lothian Kodály Tutor, served as Kodály Specialist at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, and worked with students across Scotland as a voice, piano, and musicianship teacher. Holding Level 9 Kodály Musicianship from the British Kodály Academy and an ABRSM Teaching Diploma with Distinction, she is passionate about fostering musical literacy, creativity, and confidence in learners of all ages.