Emma Clark is a soprano originally hailing from DeWitt, Michigan. She began studying both piano and voice at a very young age, and now enjoys singing in a wide variety of styles, from contemporary opera and baroque period pieces to musical theatre and jazz. As a child Emma would run around her home, wearing only a hat, singing and dancing to her parents’ dinner theatre repertoire. Today, she continues to follow her passion for the arts, though more appropriately dressed.

 

Emma currently resides in Bowling Green, Ohio. This past April, she completed her Master’s of Performance in Voice at Bowling Green State University, studying with Myra Merritt-Grant and Katherine Pracht Phares. She continues to refine her vocal instrument under the instruction of Professor Phares as she prepares for the next steps of her musical career. 

 

A few recent performance credits include Fiona in Brigadoon (BGSU), Sandman/Dew Fairy (covers) in Hänsel und Gretel (Musikverein in Vienna, Austria), Damigella in The Coronation of Poppea (BGSU), Claire in Ordinary Days (Hope College), and Rapunzel in Into the Woods (Hope College). Emma was the 2023 winner of the Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competition at BGSU, and served as Assistant Director to Professor Keith Phares for the CMA’s spring 2024 production of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. On Sunday mornings you can spot Emma serving as a section leader at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Perrysburg, OH. You can also find her teaching private voice and piano lessons at Forté School of Music in Toledo, OH. 

 

Along with her love for performing and teaching, Emma also enjoys music administration. Emma holds a Bachelor of Art's degree in English with minors in communication and music from Hope College. She currently serves as a Special Projects Assistant to the Dean of the College of Musical Arts at BGSU, and has held a variety of positions in publicity, administration, and marketing throughout her years of collegiate education. 

 

Telling stories is an important part of Emma’s love for the arts, and she finds fulfillment in the mental work it takes to prepare music, monologues, and roles. This appreciation for storytelling also influences her joy for writing. Emma seeks to combine her spirit for singing, writing, and acting over the course of her career through lyrical composition collaboration with other musicians, playwriting, and arts management. Emma recently collaborated on an art song project called lifetrees with fellow BGSU graduate student, Jonathan Kroeger. Emma is also a published poet! Her poem An ode to loaded nachos and light, summer beer with lime appears in 86 Logic’s 8th issue.

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Emma is an avid traveler-- her most recent adventures taking her to Vienna, Austria and Corfu, Greece. During both the summers of 2022 and 2023 she had the opportunity to perform in Vienna, under the direction of Wolfgang Reisinger in May of 2022 and with the Vienna Opera Academy in July of 2023.​