Emily Kemp

Glasgow-born soprano Emily Kemp studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Junior Conservatoire and the Music School of Douglas Academy, before pursuing a degree in French and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews. A member of the 12 th cohort of Genesis Sixteen, Emily co-founded the vocal quartet The Hepburn IV, whose performance at the Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival 2025 earned them a 5* review in The Scotsman. She sang with the NYCoS choirs for many years, including as a Leverhulme scholar with the chamber choir between 2021 and
2024.

Emily is currently a choral scholar at St Salvator’s Chapel Choir and is a recipient of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Young Singers’ Programme 25/26.

Alongside her choral experience, Emily has enjoyed concert solo opportunities including: Britten Rejoice in the Lamb (NYCoS/ RSNO Edinburgh International Festival& Lammermuir Festival 2023); Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream (First Fairy ,NYCoS/ BBC SSO, BBC Proms 2024); Faure Requiem (Choeur Symphonique de Montpellier 2024); Bach Magnificat (Glasgow Barons 2024); Bach St John’s Passion & Allegri Miserere (St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, BBC One Christmas Celebration 2024); Handel Messiah (Glasgow Barons 2025); Brahms Requiem (St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe 2025); Moçnik Adventus Domini Jesu Christi (Edinburgh Singers, 2025 premiere).

Emily’s operatic and stage engagements include Side by Side by Sondheim (Byre Opera 2024); Iseut of the White Hands, Frank Martin Le Vin Herbé (Byre Opera 2025); Lucy, Menotti The Telephone and Despina, Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte (St Andrews
Chamber Opera Group 2023) and Opsnizing Dad, John Wallace (Wallace Collection 2022).

She currently studies with Jessica Leary and Megan Read, and has participated in masterclasses with Roderick Williams, Jonas Müller, and Anna Dennis. She is looking forward to taking up her place on the MMus Vocal Studies course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2026-28.