Having graduated from Durham University with a First Class Honours degree in Music, Emily Owen went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, completing an Extended Artist Masters with Distinction in 2017 and becoming a GSMD Ensemble Artist Fellow with early music ensemble Ceruleo in 2017/18. She is coached by Tim Evans-Jones. Emily leads a varied free lance career as a consort singer and soloist, making her solo debut at Teatro alla Scala, Milan playing the role of ‘Iris’ in Handel’s Semele and her BBC Proms solo debut in Dixit Dominus in 2021 under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She features on two CDs of Purcell Odes with The Kings Consort released in 2020/21and released her first album with Ceruleo in 2022.
Emily is a soprano at St Bride’s Church Fleet Street and also sings with the Monteverdi Choir, Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of the Enlightenment, The Kings Consort, Sonoro, a cappella group Apollo5 and Dame Emma Kirkby’s Dowland Works. With her lute and soprano duo Melismata, Emily performs for the charity Live Music Now, taking baroque music into alternative social settings. As a passionate educator she leads workshops with the VOCES8 Foundation in their outreach work across Europe and is a choral practitioner for the Voices Foundation. She is a visiting singing teacher at Harrow School, holds an AAT qualification in Accounting and is a Personal Performance ICF accredited coach with The Coaching Academy. In her spare time she enjoys crochet and learning new skills!
Emily has earned the Mental Health Informed Practitioner Certificate with Dr George Musgrave, and the Singing for Health Practitioner: An Evidence-Based Perspective with Professor Stephen Clift.