Scottish soprano Emily Wishart graduated from the Royal College of Music in July 2025 with a Master of Performance (Vocal), studying under the tutelage of Ben Johnson and Caroline Dowdle.

Emily’s studies at the RCM were generously supported with awards from the James Caird Trust, the Scottish International Education Trust, the Robertson Trust and the Kathleen Trust, and as an RCM Scholar. She previously earned her Bachelor of Music (Hons) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021, where she worked closely with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as part of the Associate Artist programme. 

Recent opera highlights include singing the roles of Belinda in Dido and Aeneas at the Northern Chords Festival and Zerlina in the Brunswick Vocal Arts Concert Highlights of Don Giovanni. Emily also performed several roles in the RCM Opera Scenes productions, such as Amore (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Sandrina (La finta giardiniera), Ernestine (Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le…) and Ginevra (Ariodante). Whilst at the RCS, Emily’s roles in the Opera Scenes included Emmie in Albert Herring, Flora in Turn of the Screw, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Madam Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor. 

On the concert platform, Emily recently performed a programme featuring Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben and Thea Musgrave’s Songs for a Winter’s Evening song cycles at the Royal Albert Hall’s Classical Coffee Morning Series. Musgrave’s cycle features the poetry of Robert Burns throughout – Emily is committed to championing Scots language in classical music, most recently collaborating with composer Molly Arnuk to create Mary’s Song for two sopranos and recorder, set to a poem by Marion Angus. She is currently working with Arnuk again on a new piece inspired by her native Scotland, continuing her passion for performing new music. In June 2025, Emily performed a recital programme of Scots Songs at St James’s Church, Piccadilly and in November, she competed and won Third Prize in the inaugural Scottish Singing Competition at the Caledonian Club of London. This January, she sang at the Burns Club of London’s Burns Day ceremony. Upcoming performances include a series of Opera Gala concerts with Rogue Opera and a recital at the Aylesbury Lunchtime Music series in September. 

Emily is also an experienced ensemble singer, having recently sung with the RCM Baroque Orchestra under Ashley Solomon in performances of Bach Cantatas in Oxford and London; with the National Youth Choir of Scotland at the Edinburgh International Festival, and with Les Sirènes female chamber choir. Earlier in her career, she performed with NYCoS under Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms) and at the Carnegie Hall, New York.