Emma Peaurt was born in Darlington and grew up in North Wales.  After reading music at Durham University she completed postgraduate studies at the RNCM. She studies with Pat Hay.   

A finalist in the AESS English Song Competition 2006 and the Russell Shepherd Memorial Competition 2004 she won the Kate Snape Scholarship 2006, overall singing prize and Recital prize Mrs Sunderland Music Festival 2005 and the Manchester Welsh Society Prize 2004.  

Emma has appeared with Opera North at the Leeds Fuse Festival 2006, the RNCM Baroque Ensemble and the RNCM Wind Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall.  Recently she worked in the chorus of Scottish Opera in their productions of Dve Vdovy, Falstaff and Lucia di Lammermoor; had coaching with David Harper, Stephen Mould and Andrew Greene at Opera Australia, Sydney and with Derek Clark at Scottish Opera. She has also taken part in masterclasses with Jane Eaglen and Lynne Dawson.

In recent operatic performances she has been seen as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) for RNCM/Richmondshire Subscription Concert Series; Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) for St John’s Opera Company and Josephine (HMS Pinafore) for St Helens Gilbert & Sullivan Society.  She also took part in The Lover’s Recantation by Thomas Arne as part of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. 

Works she has performed as an oratorio soloist include: Mozart’s C minor mass for Bolton Choral Union; Handel’s Samson for the Penrith Singers; Bach’s St John Passion for Leicester Bach Choir; Poulenc’s Gloria & Rutter’s Requiem; Haydn’s Creation, Jenkins The Armed Man, Tippett’s 5 Negro Spirituals from A child of our Time at the Bridgewater Hall for the Hallé Choir, Handel’s Messiah, Rutter’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. 

She combines this with working in the Oran duo with the pianist Andrew Dunlop giving recitals at Wrexham Arts Festival, Durham University, Wesley Chapel Harrogate, Heaton Hall, St Ann’s Church Manchester, Bury Parish Church and Gallery Oldham.  Emma has recently started working with the Baroque trio Consort 1700 for recitals in Harlech and at Leeds Cathedral.

Future engagements include chorus for a Naxos recording of Tom Jones; Christmas Oratorio for Penrith Singers; Creation for St Asaph Choral Society; Mendelssohn's St Paul for Durham University Choral and Orchestral Societies and recitals at St Ann’s Church, Manchester and Whitewell.