Emma Bonnici is a dynamic performer, teacher and speaker. Her 8 years working in Poland with two multi award wining physical theatre companies (Teatr Piesn Kozla and Teatr Zar) has influenced her views and approach to training and performance greatly; as has the vocal research and studies at the Met Opera House (New York) and with Jonathan Hart Makwaia of the Roy Hart tradition, along with ethnomusical expeditions to learn from traditional singers in Georgia, Sicily, Ukraine and the Western Isles of Scotland.
Emma set up her own company Singing as Life Practice in 2011 and teaches songs, voice and music from a holistic perspective seeing voice as connected to body and imagination. She sees song and voice as a vital part of life and a place for both communication and conversation through which, self-discovery and self-empowerment can be found as awell as the collective expression of common human experience.
Emma teaches both nationally and internationally in a variety of settings from universities and conservatories, to creative projects and 1-1 mentoring. She works across theatre dance and music and underpins and supports the work with her qualification as a craniosacral therapist. In 2015 Emma was invited to give TedX about her work called The Power of the Voice. The current focus performance work focuses on eco-theatre with performances around Forests and a solo performance Arctic Cantata about the loss of Arctic sea ice.
She is now based in Northumberland and continues to teach, perform and learn.