Emma grew up in the Suzuki Method, beginning the cello aged four and learning with Christine Livingstone until eighteen. Whilst taking the rather unconventional route of studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, Emma played regularly with a number of orchestras there, performed with the Christ's College Music Society and formed a five-cello rock group, for which she composed and arranged all the music.

Whilst writing her final year dissertation ('Children Are Seedlings: Personhood and Learning in the Suzuki Method of Teaching') Emma grew more interested in the philosophy of the Method and later trained as a Suzuki teacher. She now teaches at the Southbank International School in Hampstead, and privately in Belsize Park and Bayswater. Emma is also a keen Irish fiddle player, and sings and plays in The Clockwork Quartet .

More information can be found on Emma's  teaching web site : www.suzukipod.com.