Emily Dickens is a soprano, music director and choral specialist, in demand as a performer and choral director internationally. Emily read music at Trinity College, Cambridge where she was a Choral Scholar, before joining the critically acclaimed British vocal ensemble VOCES8 as their soprano for eight years. Emily is Creative Director of Gabrieli Roar and Associate Conductor of London Symphony Orchestra’s Symphonic Gospel programme.
Previously Interim Director of Music of the Girls’ Choir at Christ Church Oxford, Associate Choral Director at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Chorus Master for Holland Baroque’s Gospel Baroque, Emily has directed services for BBC Radio 4 as conductor at St Martin-in-the-Field’s, conducted live-streamed Nine Lessons and Carols at Christ Church, conducted the National Youth Choir of Great Britain in two recent discs of contemporary commissions and was Chorus Master for Gabrieli’s award-winning recording of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius.
Emily has run choral courses all over the world and prepared choirs for high profile concerts and recordings as well as for film, tv and video game. Emily was Chorus Master for Max Richter’s Oscar-nominated film score Hamnet, and was Choir Master for The Garfield Movie (2024) and Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023). Recent solo engagements include the Pastoral Symphony by Vaughan Williams, Mozart Mass in C Minor with the London Mozart Players and The Royal Choral Society, Poulenc Gloria and a disc of Mozart and Haydn for Keble College, Oxford. Emily performs with The Monteverdi Choir, Polyphony, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The BBC Singers, The Gabrieli Consort, The Eric Whitacre Singers, Tenebrae and Papagena. She has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls and is heard regularly on international TV and radio; a Decca Classics Recording Artist, she has had four albums top the classical charts.