Each year, on the second Sunday before Advent, Germany commemorates members of the armed forces of all nations and civilians who died in armed conflicts and oppression. Emma is deeply honored and moved to have been invited to sing for the “Volkstrauertag” ceremony at Ysselsteyn cemetery in the Netherlands, where over 31,000 soldiers are buried. She is there on the invitation of the British Veteran John Sleep, who fought and was wounded nearby. John believes strongly in ‘Peace Between All Nations’ and has attended the ceremony in Ysselsteyn for several years.

Sunday, 17th November 13:30, Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery, the Netherlands

Emma will join organist Willeke Smits for a concert in the Edesche Concertzaal, Ede, the Netherlands. The programme includes music from Britain, Norway, and the U.S. with songs by Elgar, Grieg, Copeland, and Gershwin. Willeke will perform Vaughan-Williams’ ‘Rhosymedre’ and her own arrangement of Grieg’s ‘Holberg suite.’

Friday, 1st November, 20:00, Edesche Concertzaal, Ede, the Netherlands

For tickets, please follow this link.

In order to celebrate seventy-five years since the liberation of Brabant, the city of Bergen op Zoom is hosting an international military tattoo. Emma with join the Band of Liberation and conductor Simon Dubbelaar for a spectacular evening of military music.

For more information (in Dutch), please follow this link.

Saturday, 26th October, 19:00, Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands

On 19th and 20th October, Emma will visit Venray, the Netherlands to sing in two concerts to celebrate the liberation of the town seventy-five years ago.

On 19th October she will give a concert with M.M.S.K. St. Petrus’ Banden, The Stuart Singers, and vocalists Don Mulders and Anna Joan in the Schouowburg theatre. Some of the last surviving British veterans who liberated the town will be present.

On 20th October, after the ceremony at the British war cemetery, Emma will sing at Geijsteren Castle together with Theaterchor Niederrhein, The Stuart Singers, and the chamber choir of Geijsteren, together with the Reünieorkest van de Limburgse Jagers en het St. Willibrordusgilde uit Geijsteren, with conductor Geert Verhallen.

19th October, 20:15, Schouwburg, Venray, the Netherlands

For tickets, please follow this link.

20th October, 14:30, Geijsteren Castle, Venray, the Netherlands

Emma will return to Nottingham to sing in a special performance of Karl Jenkins’s “The Armed Man” together with a joint choir from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and the Nottingham Concert Orchestra under Dutch conductor Martin van der Brugge. She will also perform ‘Villanelle’ from Berlioz’s “Nuits d’Été” and ‘Where corals lie’ from Elgar’s “Sea Pictures” with the Nottingham Concert Orchestra and British conductor Angela Kay. The event is organised by Music for Everyone, the wonderful foundation through which Emma began singing when she was around six years old.

Saturday, 12th October, 19:30, Albert Hall, Nottingham

For tickets, please follow this link.

Emma is really delighted to have been commissionedto compose for Leiden’s carillon. The twelve-minute piece tells the story of the siege and liberation of Leiden: the starvation of its citizens, the storm and the floods which allowed the Sea Beggars to reach the city, the church services of thanksgiving that the siege was over, and the celebrations with herring, white bread, and the hutspot brought by Cornelis Joppenszoon. On request, the composition quotes well-known ‘3 Oktober’ songs as part of its musical narrative and is intended to be music with a broad appeal to the general public. Carillonneur Levina Pors will present the piece on the carillon of Leiden’s City Hall.

With thanks to Hein van Woerden and the Van der Mandele Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland, the Leiden City Council, the 3 October Vereeniging, Leiden, and Het Leids Carillon Genootschap for their support.

Wednesday, 2nd October, 16:00, City Hall (square), Leiden