Baroque Cello
Study
BMus hons Cello Performance (first class honours), Postgraduate Certificate (Advanced Studies in Baroque Cello), Registered Suzuki Cello Teacher, Accredited Suzuki Early Childhood Educator.
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Emma completed her modern and baroque studies in cello at Victoria University of Wellington in 2004, and then travelled to the Netherlands to further her study on baroque cello with Jaap ter Linden at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. whilst there, Emma also attended Summer and Winter schools
Since her return to Aotearoa, Emma has collaborated extensively with other Wellington-based early music specialists as well as performing with NZ Barok. In the Chamber Music New Zealand series, Emma toured with the Wallfisch Band and Barocca. She has also performed Handel’s Acis and Galatea with NZ Opera. Emma performed a Cello concerto by Zani with NZBarok in 2012 that then toured to Christchurch. Emma performs and tours with Wellington-based ensemble RESTORATION.
As well as performing, Emma is the Artist Teacher for Baroque Cello at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. She teaches individual students and coordinates and teaches historically informed performance practice workshops for secondary school and university level students.
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RESTORATION is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and accomplished baroque ensembles. The members of the group have been working together over many years in concerts, tours and recordings, and collaborating with numerous visiting and local artists specializing in the performance of baroque music and dance using the original instruments, styles and techniques of the time. The group’s guiding principle is that this music speaks most directly to us with its original voice and inflections, and that modern audiences need no compromises to modern tastes and demands, to gain the greatest enjoyment and enlightenment from this window into the wonderfully foreign world of the past.
Comprising leading baroque specialists from all over Aotearoa New Zealand, NZ Barok performs using instruments and playing styles of the period, breathing fresh life and vitality into baroque and classical masterpieces and lesser-known musical treasures from the 18th century.
