Clarinettist Emily Crook is currently finishing her Masters at the Royal College of Music as a Headley Trust Scholar. Emily is currently on trial for Principal Eb Clarinet at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and has previously trialled for Principal Clarinet of Manchester Camerata and Sub-Principal Clarinet of the Welsh National Opera. Emily regularly freelances across the country, and has regularly appears as a guest with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chromatica Orchestra. This year, she is on the Foyle Future Firsts Scheme with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and is also on the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Emerging Musicians Fellowship. At the RCM she has also won the opportunity to be part of the BBC Symphony Pathway Scheme, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Scheme and English National Opera Scheme in previous years.
Emily also adores chamber music and this year won first prize in the Royal Overseas League Mixed Ensemble Final with the Aera Ensemble. She has performed in 1901 Arts Club as part of the Hattori Foundation Recital Series, and in the Cerne Abbas Music Festival alongside her professor, Richard Hosford, and the Gaudier Ensemble. Emily also regularly performs with The Hyde Quartet who are winners of the Tunnell Trust Award 2025-2026, and who are performing at Chipping Campden Festival this Summer. She has performed at Wigmore Hall collaborating with Ensemble 360, as well as with other chamber groups in venues such as The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, The Gardens of Highgrove House, Garsington Opera, Royal Albert Hall Elgar Rooms, 11 Downing Street, Champs Hill and Dorchester Arts. This Summer, Emily will be appearing at Harrogate International Festival as a soloist and performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with RCM Symphony Orchestra.
Emily is extremely grateful for the funding support she has received for both years of her Masters study, and would like to give thanks to the Headley Trust, Drake Calleja Trust, Hattori Foundation, Help Musicians, Craxton Memorial Trust and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust for the Neil Black Award.
