Emily White

Emily White is a freelance musician specialising in new and historical performance. She brought out her first solo disc A Cry Was Heard with Deux-Elle record label in 2022, and her second will be recorded in August 2023. She launched her YouTube Channel in 2020. She is a member of The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble who’s 16 discs include Classic FM disc of the month, BBC Choice, several Gramophone Awards and Diapason d’Or winners. She also plays principal regularly for Il Giardino Armonico in Italy, playing on the Diapason D'or Disc of the Year La Morte della Ragione. She works with Dunedin Consort, Les Talens Lyriques in France, B’Rock in Belgium and the 'crack British ensemble’ (The Observer) In Echo. She loves the freedom that can be found in early music performance and contemporary music. Her trio Pandora's Box with John Kenny and Miguel Sevilliano Tantos has toured their improvisatory take on contemporary and early music to Portugal, Spain, Ireland, UK and USA.

John Kenny wrote his ground-breaking Sonata 'Secret House' featuring multi phonics in the female vocal range for Emily. She released a disc of it with Carnyx and Co in 2010 and a video in 2020 on her YouTube channel.

Emily has also had works written for her by Rachel Stott, Peter McCarthy, Peter Cowdrey, Ercole Nisini, David Ward and has written several pieces herself. Simon Proctor is currently writing her a sackbut concerto, and the 2023 Hindemith Composers Prize- winner Alex Paxton is composing an unnacompanied sackbut solo for her to record this year.

Emily is professor of sackbut and trombone at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, teaches trombone and sackbut at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and teaches trombone at Wells Cathedral School. She won the Sheila Tracey Award from the British Trombone society in 2022 and has been awarded an Associate Royal Academy of Music.