ABOUT
With her diverse musical upbringing as the granddaughter of Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Emily Dankworth’s melodic and expressive voice was forged from an early age. From Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London to the Lincoln Center in New York, Emily has performed all over the world and collaborated with many legendary artists, including the likes of Grammy and Pulitzer-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Chineke! String Quartet and producer/guitarist Jamie McCredie (Roisin Murphy).
Emily became a chorister in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC in 1997 and later with La Capella Mallorquina in The Balearics, where she shared the stage with Placido Domingo and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Emily has performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alongside Damien Sneed and the 70-voice Chorale Le Chateau for the Abyssinian Mass. She is also a member of Voquality Singers, who recorded the soundtracks of the Grammy and Oscar winning Marvel films Black Panther and Wakanda Forever at Abbey Road Studios with choir leader Ken Burton, and in Candy Cane Lane (Eddie Murphy) in 2023.
Having secured a choral scholarship to the University of Canterbury, Emily then went on to graduate from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with a Masters in Jazz Performance. She has since performed live at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, The Barbican Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), Boston Symphony Hall, The National Centre for Performing Arts (Beijing), and has been featured on BBC Radio and BBC Television including The Paul O’Grady Show, BBC Radio 2, The One Show, Ronnie Scott’s Radio Show, and JAZZ FM.
In 2018 Emily led a Vocal Workshop as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival at Kings Place London and was welcomed back in 2019 where she was the vocal coach for the EFG London Jazz Festival project “Women in Jazz” which performed at The Southbank Theatre, organised by Serious. Other concerts include performances of “Freedom Song” and “The Sun Does Shine” 2024 at The Hackney Empire in London with Vox Holloway Choir and Harvey Brough (Harvey and The Wallbangers).
