Emma Greenwood, horn

Emma Greenwood was born on Wirral in 1980.  She is an ex-member of the National Youth Orchestra, a music graduate of Oxford University and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Performance Studies from Trinity College of Music.  She now enjoys a busy freelance career, engaging in a wide variety of orchestral, chamber, solo and educational work.

Emma has toured extensively in Britain and Europe, playing in all the major UK venues, and has made numerous broadcasts live on radio and television, including several at the BBC Proms.  She works regularly with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia and in January will be touring Germany with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She has also travelled to Italy with South Bank Sinfonia and played with the St. Endellion Festival Orchestra under Richard Hickox. In November 2003 she spent two weeks in India playing with and coaching the Bombay (Mumbai) Chamber Orchestra.

As soloist Emma has been invited to perform with the Bourgas Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria; in June 2004 she performed Richard Strauss' Horn Concerto No.1 with the St. Albans Symphony Orchestra.  She is also a member of the Elian Ensemble with whom she is heavily involved in choreographing works to involve theatre/movement.  She has been a participant at Chamber Music International for the past four summers and in 2002 was awarded a bursary to study at the Dartington International Summer School.

Emma is indebted to her teacher Stephen Stirling for his continual inspiration; she is also grateful to Lindsey Stoker, Richard Watkins, Roger Montgomery and Sue Dent for their guidance, and to Timothy Brown for his support and encouragement.