Born in a musician’s family, Emilie Husson started her musical studies with cello and piano learning. She got a degree in music theory and in piano. She started singing in Angers’ Conservatoire in Yves Sotin’s class where she gained her singing degree. Diplomed with a musicology degree and the first prize of chamber music with disctinstion, she leaves France for England to enter with scholarship the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London, where she obtained her Bachelor of Music with distinction.
Emilie Husson takes part in many master-classes, like with Emma Kirkby and Mark Padmore. Back in France, she advances in baroque music with Michel Laplénie and Michel Verschaeve, with who she also studies baroque gesture.
Nowadays, Emilie Husson works with several ensembles like The Chapelle Musique du Val de Grace, The Ensemble Vocal de Nantes, Opus 14, the quatuor Liger, La Ménestrandise, the ensemble Galatée and les musiciens de Mademoiselle de Guise. She performs as a soloist Dixit Dominus by Haendel at the festival La Folle Journée de Nantes and interprets Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with the counter-tenor Bruno Lelevreur for a tour in the west of France. Her repertoire includes Requiems by Brahms, Mozart and Fauré, Magnificat by Vivaldi, Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin, Jephte by Carissimi as well as several sacred works by Bach, Charpentier, Haendel, Purcell, Telemann and Monteverdi.
Passioned with opera, Emilie Husson makes her debuts on stage with the role of the second lady, in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She interprets successively on stage Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, the Fire and the Nightingale in l’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Mme Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor by Mozart and Lucy in The Telephone by Menotti in Angers.She is Philadell, Cupid and Venus in King Arthur by Purcell at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes, La Princesse de Grenade in Les Brigands by Offenbach at the Grand Théâtre in Angers, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart at the Château de Rochambeau. She goes into Mozart’s character with the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Aspasia (Mitridate, Re di Ponto) and Il Fauno (Ascanio in Alba), Italian opera with Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti) and Norina (Don Pasquale, Donizetti), and French opera with La Poupée (Les contes d’Hoffmann, Offenbach), La Folie (Platée, Rameau), Eurydice (Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach) and Lakmé (Delibes).
Emilie Husson also performs in Recitals. She interprets Songs by Pauline Viardot at the Grand Théâtre in Angers and Songs by Francis Poulenc at the Chapelle du Val de Grâce in Paris.