Emily Askew is a versatile musician playing recorders, vielle (medieval fiddle), shawm, bagpipes, fiddle and piano. Her interests are wide and varied reaching from the deep roots of folk music through to Medieval, Baroque and contemporary repertoire.
At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Emily graduated with a first class honours BMUS and also received the Dove Memorial Prize for the highest BMUS mark in her year. She is now a principal study recorder teacher at Trinity Laban.
As a member of the Askew Sisters, she has twice been a BBC Young Folk Award semi-finalist and in 2005 won the New Roots competition. The sisters have released and EP and three albums (the last winning the Spiral Earth Award for Best Trad Album) and have been playing at festivals and clubs to great acclaim over the last ten years.
A keen chamber musician, Emily also performs with a range of early music ensembles. These include Medieval and Renaissance groups The Artisans, Joglaresa and The Dufay Collective. She also enjoys collaborations between different art forms. Recent work includes 'Yonec', the Dufay Collective's Puppet project, 'A Long Walk Home' and 'Running Wild' with contemporary dancers choreographed by Darren Ellis and 'Walk the Way', the Artisans collaboration with poets Paulina Vauderbilt and Lucy Aykroyd.
Emily is also interested in opera and theatre. She has performed as principal recorder at Glyndebourne and as a multi-instrumentalist in productions for Apollo West End, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Hampstead Players.
