EMMA PASCOE

In 2025, Emma Pascoe has had five premieres of her work, including commissions, with Opus 48 (Oxford), Inner Voices (London), the Sitwell Singers (Derby), the choir of All Saints' Church, Putney, and the Thallein Ensemble (Birmingham). She is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, under the tutelage of Howard Skempton and Ed Bennett. As part of the degree so far, she has also written for percussionist Alex Walton, cellist Robin Michael, and the Orchestra of the Swan, and she is currently writing for Mary Dullea & Darragh Morgan and the Mela Guitar Quartet.

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Emma was commissioned by the ORA Singers and Suzi Digby OBE as part of their inaugural Graduate Composers programme in 2024, and has joined their 100 Commissions Catalogue, after a world premiere performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2023, she made her radio debut on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship with the London-based youth choir Inner Voices (dir. Ralph Allwood MBE / Ed Watkins). They also took her music on their tour of Italy in February 2024, and commissioned a new work which premiered in April 2025 at St Paul's, Knightsbridge. Since 2021, Emma's pieces have been a regular fixture in Jack Gibbons' long-running Oxford Summer Piano Series.

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She graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2020. She was selected to be a Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence at the college in 2019, which involved writing for the renowned Royal Holloway Chapel Choir and their director, Rupert Gough. With guidance from Samantha Fernando, Nina Whiteman, and John Traill, her music was workshopped by CHROMA, and performed by the Jane Holloway Choir. She assisted Nathan James Dearden as the inaugural Young Associate Conductor of the Royal Holloway New Voices Consort and New Music Collective, which collaborated with Judith Weir in 2020. She was founder and co-manager of the Royal Holloway Conductors’ Collective, which included tuition from Rebecca Miller and Neil Ferris. She also conducted three premieres as part of the Festival of Contemporary Music for All 2020. She is currently taught by Daniele Rosina at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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She is founder and director of the 'Songs Away From Time' project, and currently teaches piano and violin on a part-time basis in Oxfordshire. She was a soprano in Opus 48 from 2021 to 2024, and manager of SJE Arts (Oxford) from 2020 to 2023.

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As a neurodivergent musician, Emma is currently researching neurodiversity in contemporary classical music and its creative process, and enjoys writing about this and other subjects in her blog.