EmaNikolovska

Macedonian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska completed her Master's in Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she also completed the Opera Course. She was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2022 and in 2022 she became a recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

She is an Alumna of the International Opera Studio at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin where in 2023 she made her role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier. She returns in the 2024/25 season for Stefano in Romeo et Juliette. In the 2023/24 season she made her house and role debut as the Fox in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Canadian Opera Company and her debut at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre singing the lead role in George Benjamin's Picture a Day Like This, a role she will revive this season at the Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg.

In concert she will make her debut in Japan singing Mozart arias with the NHK Symphony and Petr Popelka. Other concerts this season include Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with George Benjamin and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mozart's Davide Penitente at the Vicenza Festival conducted by Andras Schiff.

Already a celebrated recitalist, in the 2023/24 season her partners included Martha Argerich, Sir András Schiff , Charles Richard-Hamelin and Sean Shibe. She made her debut recital tour in the U.S. and Canada, including Carnegie Hall, and was a Featured Artist at Wigmore Hall. Her 2024/25 recitals include Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Amsterdam and a return to Wigmore Hall.