SINGING AS A WAY OF MEETING LIFE

In this conversation, performer, singer and teacher Emma Bonnici speaks about how Singing as Life Practice came about, and the events that shaped it - the sudden death of her father, unpayable heating bills, and a moment in a theatre rehearsal.

She reflects on what has shifted and changed in the thirteen years since she began the work, shares her questions about teaching and voice, about convictions she had held, and those she lost and re-found during a long walk across the Canary Islands last autumn.

Emma Bonnici is a performer, singer and teacher trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She spent eight years performing with Song of the Goat Theatre and Teatr Zar in Poland. Her work is rooted in long-term vocal research, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to traditional singers in Georgia, Ukraine, Scotland, Turkey and Corsica. 

Founder of Singing as Life Practice and a TEDx speaker, Emma teaches internationally and is currently performing in The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.