Emma will join the Leidse Cantorij as a guest soloist during the Jubileum vespers of their conductor, Hans Brons, who has led the choir for forty years. The choir have sung in St. Pauls’ Cathedral, London, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and at a wedding of the Dutch royal family. They were one of the first choirs to sing choral Evensong in the Netherlands.

The vespers on 20th September includes music by Tallis, Sweelinck, Monteverdi, Buxtehude, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Stanford, and by Emma, as the choir will sing her motet “O Lux Beata Trinitas.” Willeke Smits will play the organ, and the vespers is led by the minister, Margreet Klokke.

To apply for a place, please sign up here and register your interest in services of the Leidse Binnenstadsgemeente.

20th September, 17:00, Hooglandse Kerk, Leiden, the Netherlands.

On 20th September, Emma will sing during a Corona Remembrance service in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, together with pianist/organist Matthias Konijnenberg, pianist Peter van Veen, and lyre-player Mariëtte Burm.

The ceremony has been organized by the Dutch Protestant Church together with Arum Funeral Care. During the lockdown in spring and early summer, the number of people attending funerals was heavily restricted, which often gave a bleak and sombre feeling to the occasion. Now that more people are allowed to gather together, the church and the undertakers wanted to give people the chance to look back on the lives of those who passed away during the lockdown.

The ceremony is therefore open to people from all religions and of no religion. It is led by the minister, Hester Smit.

To apply for a place, please contact Arum Uitvaartverzorger on 071 572 00 76.

For more information (in Dutch), please click here.

Emma will join organist Willeke Smits for a concert in the Orgel Promenade concert series in the Hooglandse Kerk. Willeke will perform music by Andriessen and Strategier. Emma joins her for three of Elgar’s ‘Sea Pictures,’ which Willeke has transcribed for organ. The concert concludes with the wonderful ‘Suite Gotique’ by Boëllmann.

You can watch the live stream here.

The concert is dedicated to Joop Brons, former organist of the Hooglandse Kerk, who passed away last Tuesday.

Saturday, 5th September, 13:30, Hooglandse Kerk, Leiden, the Netherlands