Emily Beech is an Irish soprano and opera-maker. She was a British Youth Opera Serena Fenwick Artist for 2024 and a Junior Fellow at Guildhall School 2024-25. She was also a SongEasel Young Artist for 2023, and a Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist (Director) for 2023. Emily graduated with Distinction from postgraduate studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2023, where she was generously supported by the Kathleen Roberts scholarship and the John Clemence Charitable Trust. She previously read Music at the University of Birmingham, graduating with first-class honours in 2019. Emily’s recent work includes performing the roles of Amor/Valetto (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) for HGO, and Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera) for Opera on Location, in a new English translation of Verdi’s score by Ashley Pearson. For the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival 2025, Emily has performed as ‘Victory’ in a contemporary re-imagining of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum. For Trinity Laban opera scenes she performed the roles of Queen Mary (Mary Queen of Scots), Sandrina (La Finta Giardiniera), Rosaura (Le Donne Curiose) and Mimi (La Boheme). Emily enjoyed recent competition success as a prize-winner in the AESS National English Song Competition 2023 and the Peter Hearn Foundation Competition 2023.