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Over Breathing?
Professional musicians who control breathing for their job have highly sensitive, developed and athletic breath capacity. Loading is...

Emma Williams
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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Breathing - bigger, better, more?
Breathing is natural and we do it without having to think - right? Sometimes circumstances can disrupt that natural process for example...

Emma Williams
Nov 18, 20202 min read
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Recording Maya G L Verlaak: Another Timbre
As musicians we listen all the time, on a minute scale, to our own playing, to the collective complete picture and to each element that...

Emma Williams
Mar 9, 20201 min read
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Berlin: Maerzmusik Festival for Time
Personally, this was one of the most exciting performances this year with contemporary ensemble Apartment House, opening the MaerzMusik...

Emma Williams
Mar 16, 20182 min read
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Improvising at Cafe Oto - home to creative new music
I don't think I have ever been so close to an audience as I found myself in Apartment House's performances at Cafe Oto. I found the...

Emma Williams
Feb 20, 20181 min read
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Phoenix Centre for Complex Eating Disorders
A challenging but joyful project working with the RPO Resound team and a small number of young teenagers in residential care at the NHS...

Emma Williams
Feb 13, 20181 min read
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Side by Side: Philharmonia & Trinity Laban
I spent a lovely afternoon working with the flute students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance on orchestral sectional...

Emma Williams
Jan 11, 20181 min read
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Bass Flute @ LCMF 2017
It was a joy to be part of the London Contemporary Music Festival again in 2017 performing music by the American minimalist Robert Ashley...

Emma Williams
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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'Wythnos' Opera
This was my journey to work in October and November, so many fabulous Welsh landscapes which were part of every day on this amazing...

Emma Williams
Nov 18, 20172 min read
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Venue Mayhem - Copenhagen
I was really pleased to join experimental contemporary chamber group Apartment House in a performance of Femenine by Julius Eastman at...

Emma Williams
Oct 7, 20171 min read
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Sacrum Profanum Festival - Krakow
It was an eye-opener to be given a guided tour, by one of the resident actors, through the nuclear shelter underneath the People's...

Emma Williams
Sep 30, 20171 min read
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Ultima Festival - Oslo
It was a pleasure performing in the uber-cool white space at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, with fellow musicians of Apartment...

Emma Williams
Sep 14, 20171 min read
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London Contemporary Music Festival
If you had asked me 5 years ago "What do you see yourself doing in 5 years as a performer" I would not have said 'improvising'. As a...

Emma Williams
Dec 15, 20161 min read
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Live recording of New York minimalist composer Julius Eastman's "Stay On It"
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen-to-an-exclusive-performance-of-julius-eastman-s-stay-on-it- It was fun to record the groovy...

Emma Williams
Dec 15, 20161 min read
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London Festival Opera in Mannheim
I was thrilled to perform in this beautiful salon in the Palace of Mannheim with London Festival Opera in April, surrounded by light...

Emma Williams
Apr 17, 20161 min read
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REVOLUTION festival
It was a sheer joy to work with dancer Daniel Davidson and dancer/choreographer Pierre Tappon on this project. It was interesting how...

Emma Williams
Jan 23, 20162 min read
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