Jamie Leeming

Given Emily's musical heritage granddaughter to Dame Cleo Laine and the late Sir John Dankworth as well as niece to Jacqui Dankworth and daughter to Alec Dankworth it is no surprise that she has her forte in music."Emily's contribution to the album works beautifully on the simply Spanish folk tunes"- Basho Records In Emily's career she has performed live at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, The Barbican Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Centre, (NYC), Boston Symphony Hall, The National Center for Performing Arts, (Beijing), The Elgar Room, Kings Place and has been featured on BBC Radio and BBC Television including The Paul O'Grady Show, BBC Radio 2, The One Show, BBC One ,The Choir, BBC Radio 3, Ronnie Scotts' Radio Show, JAZZ FM and Jamie Cullum's Radio Show. She has performed with many internationally acclaimed jazz musicians including Grammy and and Pulitzer-winning Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with whom she embarked on a month long tour around the USA in 2013 performing in over 16 cities. She had the privilege of working alongside Damien Sneed and singing with the 70-voice Chorale Le Chateau. Her classical solo performances include 'Feel The Spirit' by John Rutter, as a soloist with Congleton Choral Society, Soprano Soloist for The Year of Jubilee, music by Harvey Brough and choral concerts, operas and zarzuelas(Spanish operettas) including La Traviata, Verdi's Requiem and La Cavalleria Rusticana. Emily also sang under the direction of Jose Maria Moreno with La Capella Mallorquina during 2007- 2010 choir in Spain, and had the opportunity to share the stage with Placido Domingo and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Emily's most recent commitments were with the acapella group Vive ,with international performances as far away as China. Emily is now focusing on her solo career and lives in London. She regularly performs in Alec Dankworth's World Spirit and Spanish Accents, The Jamie Leeming Group, Ben Castle's Tombola Theory, and vocal Quartet Silk Street. Emily was a chorister the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC in 1997 and also later received a choral scholarship to sing in Canterbury Cathedral, Kent and study at Canterbury University in 2004.