Emily India Evans is an English soprano based in Basel and London.

Emily is a versatile and highly-skilled musician with a wide range of performing experience. She read for a degree in Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from which she graduated in 2023.

Recent solo concert highlights include Bach’s solo soprano cantata, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (West Road Concert Hall); Louis Vierne’s Les Angelus (St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge); John Dowland’s First Book of Songs with viol consort (Sidney Sussex College Chapel); and François Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres (Trinity College Chapel). Previous operatic roles include Venus (Venus and Adonis, Blow); Belinda (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell); First Lady (The Magic Flute, Mozart); Maddalena (La Resurrezione, Handel); and Alcina (La Liberazione di Ruggiero, Francesca Caccini).

Equally an experienced ensemble singer, Emily is an alumnus of Genesis Sixteen and has performed with ensembles including Tenebrae, Ex Cathedra and Fretwork. She features as a soprano soloist on Sidney Sussex Choir’s recording of music by early 16th century composer, Jheronimus Vinders, which was recently named as Gramophone Editor’s Choice.

Emily has participated in masterclasses and coaching sessions with renowned singers including Janice Chapman, Sophie Bevan, Mary Bevan, Dame Emma Kirkby, James Gilchrist and Nicholas Mulroy. She studies singing with John Lattimore and Samuel Queen at the London Singers’ Studio, and with Australian soprano, Miriam Allan. Emily will begin a Masters’ degree in Vocal Performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland from September 2024, where she will study in the class of Argentinian mezzo-soprano, Rosa Domínguez.

Emily also trained as an organist, and has held positions at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; St George’s Chapel, Windsor and St Davids Cathedral. Raised in Worcestershire, Emily sang as a chorister with Ex Cathedra’s Academy of Vocal Music and Worcester Cathedral Choir.