Emma Trounson

Emma developed her love of music from a young age, singing and playing violin and viola in Leicestershire Arts in Education ensembles (now Leicestershire Music).
She studied BA Music and French with a major in performance at Bristol University and MA Choral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Emma is Director of Music at St James the Greater Church, Leicester, where she conducts the Senior Choir, Junior Choir and is the founder and director of the St James Choral Project. She also runs Small Sounds at St James – a music group for families with babies and preschoolers which is a national initiative funded by the Cathedral Music Trust.
She is Musical Director of Semper Singers, Fosse Singers, Market Harborough Choral Society and SoundCafe for homeless and vulnerably housed people.
She leads choirs at two primary schools and teaches one to one singing and conducting, and is a Soprano soloist and member of the Juliet Consort: early music vocal quintet and lute.
Emma was Director of Music at All Saints with Holy Trinity in Loughborough from 2019-2022. She conducted Fosse Singers on the pitch of the King Power Stadium as they sang the National Anthems for three matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup which was broadcast live on ITV and the St James Senior Choir were featured on BT Sport singing carols on the pitch at Welford Road on Christmas Eve 2022.
Whilst working as a Choral Director at Leicester Cathedral, Emma performed the soprano solo in Schubert Mass in G live on BBC 1 for the Easter Day broadcast from Leicester Cathedral, had a solo part on Radio 4’s Sunday Worship programme to commemorate 50 years since the moon landing and sang in the choir for the Richard III Reinterment services broadcast live on Channel 4.