About Emma

Originally from North Carolina, Emma West is a Boston-based soprano who focuses her repertoire on both early and contemporary music.  She received her B.M. in Classical Vocal Performance from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois where she also participated in the Millikin University Choir, Millikin Opera Theatre, and served as one of the founding members of Millikin’s student-led vocal chamber group, Millikin Camerata.  Emma holds a M.M. in Voice Performance from Longy School of Music where she actively performed in numerous opera productions in addition to new and early chamber music ensembles.  

 

During her studies at Longy, Emma enjoyed the beginnings of an active career in the Boston music scene through supernumerary work with Boston Lyric Opera in La Cenerentola (2023), singing in the Don Giovanni chorus for Boston Summer Opera’s inaugural season (2024), and premiering the role of Queen Alice in Ted&Togo’s The Haunted Palace (2024).  She will premiere the role of Miranda in Eric Sawyer’s The Onion (2025) in September in Amherst and Boston.