Emily Tate Daniel

Soprano Emily Tate Daniel is currently pursuing a Professional Studies Certificate at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is a grateful recipient of the Iphigenia Wise Ochs Scholarship. At SFCM, Emily studies with Rhoslyn Jones and has participated in masterclasses with Michael Fabiano, Gerald Martin Moore, and Martin Katz. Emily will perform the role of Tito in La clemenza di Tito under the baton of Maestro Curt Pajer at SFCM in March 2022.

Most recently, Emily was seen in a number of performances at Operafest Sewanee as part of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Highlights from Operafest include performing selections from Strauss' Four Last Songs and Amy Beach's Two Songs, Op.100 during the Faculty Artist Series concerts. Operafest concluded with Much Ado About Opera: Shakespeare Opera Scenes, in which Emily performed the role of Lady Macbeth in a scene from Verdi's Macbeth.

During Summer 2020, Emily attended CoOPERAtive as a Voice Fellow, and in January 2021, Emily was a Voice Fellow with the Sewanee Winterfest Opera Intensive. Emily was a Young Artist with Asheville Lyric Opera, where she later made her professional debut as Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She also covered Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen with Long Island Opera.

Emily is an alumnus of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Voice Pedagogy and Performance under the tutelage of Dr. Steven Rainbolt. During her time at Peabody, Emily was seen as the Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Peabody Opera Outreach, Aunt Norris

(cover) in the U.S. premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park, Greta Fiorentino in Street Scene at the Modell Lyric Opera House, and Fiordiligi (cover) in Così fan tutte. Emily also appeared as Female Soloist #5 in the world premiere of Stinney by Frances Pollock and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Brooklyn Summer Opera Institute.

Emily received her Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance from Palm Beach Atlantic University. While in South Florida, Emily won the Walt Disney World Outstanding Soloist Award in 2009, placed second in NATS District Competitions in 2010 and 2011, and performed as a chorus member in Palm Beach Opera’s 2014 production of Macbeth.

Active in competition, Emily was a finalist in the Progressive Musicians Online Classics Competition in December 2020. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, a Chapter Co-Winner in the Birmingham Chapter of the Dorothy Lincoln-Smith Voice Awards, a semi-finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Competition, and a finalist in the Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. Most recently, Emily qualified for the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and she will compete in the San Francisco District Competition in January 2022.