Emily is a modern and historical trombonist and a member of The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble whose sixteen discs include two Gramophone Award winners, a Diapason D’Or and Classic FM disc of the Month and are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She works with orchestras such as Royal Northern Sinfonia, Il Giardino Armonico, Les Talens Lyriques and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

As well as early music Emily has a hunger for new music and has had several new works written for her: O’r Galons by Peter McCarthy, Secret House Sonata for female trombonist by John Kenny, Apocalypse Flower, an unaccompanied sackbut solo by Alex Paxton (to be premiered at the 2024 British Trombone Festival) and a sackbut concerto by Simon Proctor to be premiered with the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square in 2025. Her first solo disc, A Cry Was Heard, (‘art of the highest order’, The Trombonist) was released with Deux-Elles record label in 2022, and her second, Made Human, will be released with them in July 2024. Emily was a Guest Artist at the International Trombone Festival in California 2017, was awarded the Sheila Tracy award Player of the Year by the British Trombone Society in 2022, is a Conn Selmer Artist, and has an ARAM from The Royal Academy of Music for services to Early Music.

Emily teaches trombone and sackbut on the brass faculty of Guildhall
School of Music and Drama, The Royal Welsh College of Music and
Drama and Wells Cathedral School. She has been guest teacher at several institutes including Trossingen University of Music, Schola Cantorum in Basel, and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire UK. She has been lucky to have been taught by fabulous teachers such as Alan Hutt, Ian Bousfield and Sue Addison and she is grateful for the lifelong inspiration from her colleagues.