A highly regarded orchestral musician, Emily Worthington performs with ensembles around the world, including the Les Arts Florissants, Oh! Orkiestra, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Anima Eterna, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Gabrieli Consort, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Emily is also in demand as a chamber musician, and collaborates regularly with pianist Daniel Grimwood. From 2013-2023 she co-directed historical wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass, whose recordings were hailed as ‘revelatory’ (Early Music Today) and ‘dazzlingly persuasive’ (BBC Music Magazine). Emily has given masterclasses and lectures at conservatoires including Paris, Brussels, Gent, The Hague, and Sydney, and served on the juries of the International Van Wassenaer Concours in Utrecht and the York Early Music Festival Young Artists Competition.

Emily is Lecturer in Historical Performance Practices at the University of York and a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Instituut in Gent, researching and teaching on performance practices and cultures in the long 19th century, and the epistemology and methodology of artistic and historical practice research. Previously, Emily held the post of Senior Lecturer in Music Performance at the University of Huddersfield, where she co-founded the interdisciplinary Research Centre for Performance Practices (later Centre for Experimental Practices) with Dr Ben Spatz. Emily’s writing has appeared in Music & Letters and volumes published by Oxford University Press and Routledge, as well as numerous magazines, CD booklets and concert programmes.

In 2023 Emily was awarded a substantial Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship grant (2023-2026) to support her artistic research into the 19th century clarinetist Carl Baermann and the creation of The Digital Baermann, an online resource for performers and scholars.