About Me

Emily Davis is a 23-year-old soprano and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) 2023 graduate. Recent roles include Adelaide from Dove’s The Enchanted Pig, and Dorabella from Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. She has been a soloist in choral works such as Bach's St Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah

 

Emily was the 2023 Recipient for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for the most promising graduating female classical voice student at WAAPA and was runner up in the 2023 Richard Gill Award. She was a finalist in the 2022 Taryn Fiebig award, the 2022 and 2023 Opera Lover’s Aria competition, and placed first in the 2023 Fremantle Eisteddfod Open Lieder section, as well as first in the 2025 Open sacred and Open Musical Theatre sections. Emily was also named overall best senior vocalist and best overall performer at the 2025 Fremantle Eisteddfod.

 

She currently sings with WA Opera Lovers as a resident artist and enjoys working as a freelance musician, teacher and choir director while studying her Honours in Classical Voice at UWA. She is a permanent alto with the Saint Cecilia singers and an experienced choral musician

 

She enjoys singing Lieder, and other music from the German repertoire such as Bach. Emily started her musical journey at West Leederville Primary School playing cello, then later, Churchlands Senior High School in the GATE music program on a vocal scholarship, most recently completing her bachelor’s degree in Classical Voice at WAAPA.