Introducing Emily Mowbray, Mezzo Soprano

Emily Mowbray, Mezzo Soprano

Born in Nottingham, England, Emily attended a specialist school for music where she was awarded the Elizabeth Nall Music Prize. She continued her vocal studies at the University of York with Lynne Dawson and graduated with a BA (Hons) in 2011. She is currently training at the Royal Northern College of Music with Nicholas Powell after receiving the Dame Isobel Baillie Performance Award for Vocal and Opera Studies. She performed in the UK première of Narcisus & Echo by Djordjevic in 2011 and performs in numerous solo recitals with a variety of repertoire. She recently performed in the Leeds Lieder Festival with a new piece 'Forgotten Memory' (2013) by Katie Chatburn. With the same composer she also worked on a collaboration to win the Rosamund Prize in 2013.  She has performed many new works in both the RNCM Concert Hall and the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall and in Contemporary Music Festivals by composers such as James Whittle and Nelson Bohorquez Castro. Emily also has a strong interest in Latin American and Spanish song, including art song, Argentine tango music and the traditional pasillo.