Emma Stannard trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and with Royal Academy Opera. This summer, Emma has performed the role of Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park) and has sung as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem (Really Big Chorus).
Further operatic experience includes Idamante Idomeneo and Enrico Elisabetta (English Touring Opera); Flora La traviata (Opera Holland Park YAP); Minerva Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Pepa Goyescas (The Grange Festival); Mother Amahl and the Night Visitors (Bampton Classical Opera) and Selene Berenice (La Nuova Musica).
Emma has won the Bampton Classical Opera Competition, the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award and was awarded the Audrey Strange Memorial Award at the final of the Royal Overseas League vocal competition. She was also a 2018/19 Handel House Talent Scheme Young Artist.