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Emma Peaurt - Soprano

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Emma Peaurt was born in Darlington and currently lives in Manchester. She read music at Durham University before completing her postgraduate studies at the RNCM where she studied with Barbara Robotham. She now studies with Pat Hay.

A finalist in the AESS English Song Competition 2006 and the Russell Shepherd Memorial Competition 2004; winner of the Kate Snape Scholarship 2006, overall singing prize and Recital prize (Mrs Sunderland Music Festival 2005) and Manchester Welsh Society Prize 2004; she has appeared with Opera North at the Leeds Fuse Festival 2006, the RNCM Baroque Ensemble and the RNCM Wind Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. Recently she worked in the chorus of Scottish Opera in their production of Lucia di Lammermoor and had coaching with David Harper, Stephen Mould and Andrew Greene at Opera Australia, Sydney.

In recent operatic performances she has been seen as Susanna (Marriage of Figaro) for RNCM/Richmondshire Subscription Concert Series 60th anniversary; Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) for St John's Opera Company and Josephine (HMS Pinafore) for St Helens Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Opera excerpts at the RNCM included Norina (Don Pasquale), Constance (Dialogue des Carmelites), Oberto (Alcina), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera) and Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia). She also took part in The Lover's Recantation by Thomas Arne as part of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

Works she has performed as an oratorio soloist include: Mozart's C minor mass for Bolton Choral Union; Bach's St John Passion for Leicester Bach Choir; Poulenc's Gloria & Rutter's Requiem; Haydn's Creation, Jenkins The Armed Man, Tippett's 5 Negro Spirituals from A child of our Time at the Bridgewater Hall for the Hallé Choir, Handel's Messiah and Samson, Rutter's Magnificat, Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's Nelson Mass.

She combines this with working in the Oran duo with the pianist Andrew Dunlop and recent recitals include Wrexham Arts Festival, Durham University, Wesley Chapel Harrogate, Heaton Hall, St Ann's Church Manchester, Bury Parish Church and Gallery Oldham. Emma has also given recitals in Sens, France.

Future engagements include Creation for Durham University Choral Society & Orchestra; a Baroque concert with St Asaph Choral Society and a Lieder recital at Durham University.