Emma Peaurt was born in Darlington and grew up in North Wales. After reading music at
A finalist in the AESS English Song Competition 2006 and the Russell Shepherd Memorial Competition 2004 she won the Kate Snape Scholarship 2006, 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 sang chorus for a Naxos recording of Tom Jones; worked in the chorus of Scottish Opera and at Buxton Gilbert & Sullivan Festival; 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. Emma has recently been accepted as an Ad Hoc singer with the BBC Singers.
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.
Works she has performed as an oratorio soloist include: Mozart's C minor mass; Handel's Samson; Bach's St John Passion for Leicester Bach Choir; Poulenc's Gloria & Rutter's Requiem; Haydn's Creation; 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 and Mozart's Requiem.
She combines this with working in the Oran duo giving recitals at Blackburn and Ripon Cathedrals, Durham University, Wesley Chapel Harrogate, Heaton Hall, St Ann's Church Manchester, Bury Parish Church and Gallery Oldham. Emma also works with the Baroque trio Consort 1700.
Future engagements include recitals at St James's Piccadilly, London; St Mary in the Baum, Rochdale; Bury Parish Church and Durham University; Creation for Ellesmere Port Music Society and Nelson Mass for the Penrith Singers.