About

Soprano Emily Finke has been praised for her “rich color palette” and “deft high range” (South Florida Classical Review). Emily performs works that span the medieval period through contemporary opera and art song. She is committed to storytelling with the utmost artistry and authenticity. Most recently, Emily was a Studio Artist with the Chautauqua Opera Company where she performed the role of Willie in the orchestra workshop of Lincoln in the Bardo by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. She also sang the role of Joan in Sitcom, a neo-baroque opera by Luke Styles and Alan McKendrick, and covered the role of Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème. In 2024,  Emily appeared as Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers with the Bard Vocal Arts Program and in the opera chorus for Bard SummerScape’s production of Le Prophète by Meyerbeer. Other operatic roles include La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, Young Juana in With Blood, With Ink, and Lucy in Fellow Travelers.

Equally passionate about song, Emily was recently featured as part of NYFOS Next recital The Color of Where You Can Never Go in October 2025 curated by pianist Nathaniel LaNasa. In 2023, she curated and performed a recital That’s All Folk! at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY which featured music from a diverse array of folk music traditions from across the United States. She also performed in a recital alongside baritone Jonathon Adams in their residency as part of Bard College’s Rethinking Place Conference in a program featuring music of living Métis composers and music composed and performed by Indigenous women in the convent schools of 17th century Quebec.

Emily has also appeared on the concert stage as the soprano soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has performed as the soprano soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Palm Beach Symphony, Part VI of Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Albany Symphony,  Mendelssohn’s Magnificat with the Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus, Fauré’s Requiem with the Frost Chorale, and in excerpts from John Adams’ Christmas oratorio, El Niño, with Frost Opera Theater. 

Emily is a graduate of the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the University of Miami Frost School of Music.She is presently based in the Hudson Valley, NY.