Emily graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music Masters programme with Distinction in 2016, under the tutelage of John Bradbury and Lynsey Marsh. Whilst at the RNCM Emily won the Gilbert-Fell prize for contemporary solo performance, a Music at Beaulieu Award and Third Prize in the Virovitica International Clarinet Competition.

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Emily enjoys a huge variety of freelance work. Recent solo engagements include the Copland Clarinet Concerto in Huddersfield Town Hall with Slaithwaite Philharmonic, Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 with Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, and the world premiere of Andy Fisher's Bass Clarinet Concerto with Southampton Sinfonietta and Chloé Van Soeterstède. 

 

As an orchestral musician, Emily does extras work across the UK for the Hallé Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Northern Ballet, the Ulster Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She doubles on Eb and Bass Clarinet and saxophones in orchestra regularly. Orchestral highlights include playing Bass Clarinet in the CBSO's performance and DG recording of Weinberg's Symphony No. 21 (UK premiere) with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, and Eb clarinet with the Hallé in their appearance in the BBC Proms, 2025. 

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New music is integral to Emily's musicianship: she regularly performs new works as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2021 she co-founded new music group Monday's Child, a Pierrot Ensemble which aims to bring new music to wider parts of the UK. Monday's Child will be ensemble in residence for Sound and Music's 2025 summer school, and have performed a diverse range of repertoire across Manchester, London and Birmingham. Other new music projects have included a chamber series with Milanese ensemble Divertimento in 2023, working on Aldeburgh Festival's Composition and Performance course in 2018, a radio-composition by Samson Young in Manchester International Festival 2017, and the 2018 Manchester Peace Song Cycle featuring ten commissions by female and non-binary Manchester-based composers.

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Emily set up the Orion Ensemble in 2019 with Adam Taylor. A passionate chamber musician, Emily is one of the founding members of North Winds quintet and has been a part of the Festival No. 6 Ensemble for two years, working with Joe Duddell and pop musicians including Everything Everything, Shadowparty, The Charlatans, Fenne Lily and Palace. 

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Before attending the RNCM Emily studied at the University of Southampton where she received a First Class Bachelor's degree in English and Music. She enjoys writing a variety of material including concert reviews, programme notes and poetry.