Biography

Emily Beech is an Irish/British soprano and opera maker. She is a BYO Serena Fenwick Artist (singer) and a current Junior Fellow (opera directing) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Emily graduated with Distinction from her postgraduate studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2023 under the tutelage of Sophie Grimmer, where her studies were generously supported by the Kathleen Roberts Scholarship and the John Clemence Charitable Trust. Previously, she read Music at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a first-class honours degree.

She is a BYO Serena Fenwick Artist for 2024, where she has had the privilege of working with industry leading professionals including Nicky Spence, Allyson Devenish and David Gowland. She is a SongEasel Young Artist for 2023, and a Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist for 2023.

Emily was delighted to be a finalist in recent competitions such as the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition, Lillian Ash French Song Competition and the Trinity Laban English Song Competition. She had success as a prize-winner in the AESS Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition 2023, and the Peter Hearn Foundation Competition 2023.

Emily has performed in masterclasses with Keval Shah, Ailish Tynan, Susan Bullock, Fiona Kimm, Nelly Miricioiu and Amanda Roocroft. Emily’s musical education is rooted in choral singing; she has sung with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Birmingham University Singers, BBC Proms Youth Choir, and most recently with Levedy Ensemble for the Sounds Sublime Festival 2023. She was the inaugural Soprano Scholar for the Thames Philharmonic Choir for 2021-22.

Alongside her work as a musician, Emily is a fledgling opera director and facilitator. She is currently directing a touring production of new children’s opera The King’s Pants for Opera Prelude. For the Tête-a-Tête Festival 2023 she directed Robert Ely’s 1944: Home Fires. For Waterperry Opera Festival 2023 she directed the A Hand of Bridge for the Young Artist’s Gala, and was assistant director on the double bill of Acis and Galatea (dir. Rebecca Meltzer) and Dido and Aeneas (dir. Guy Withers). Previous assistant directing credits include Hampstead Garden Opera's production of Agrippina (dir. Ashley Pearson), and Noye’s Fludde (dir. Oscar Simms) for Pimlico Music Foundation.

To stay afloat living in London, Emily works two days a week for the NHS at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, project managing research studies for patients in critical care.