About Emma Kirkby
Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, is an English soprano and early music specialist. She has sung on more than 100 recordings. After graduation, Kirkby went to work as a school teacher, but became increasingly involved in singing with the growing number of music ensembles that were being founded during the Early music revival of the early 1970s. Kirkby has made more than 100 recordings, including madrigals of the Italian and English Renaissance, cantatas and oratorios of the Baroque, works of Mozart, Haydn and Johann Christian Bach.
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