Emma Stansfield

Emma’s passion for teaching, performing and studying music has taken her all over the world before moving to Cornwall in September 2019. She studied viola at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and completed a Master’s degree at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) where she was awarded several scholarships, including the Elaine Krown Scholarship for the arts. During her time in California she taught on UCLA’s music partnership programme working with underserved communities, as the teaching assistant for the strings department and for musicologist and cellist Elisabeth Le Guin’s Early Music Ensemble.

Emma lived in Abu Dhabi for eight years, teaching and performing widely across the Emirates. She holds a diploma in music education from the Kodály Institute in Hungary.

Since returning to Britain, Emma has been teaching Kodály musicianship at Junior Guildhall and is working with her former teacher, Tim Boulton in West Cornwall. In Cornwall, Emma has started string programs in four local primary schools, and performs regularly across Cornwall.