Emily Amesquita

Emily Amesquita is a mezzo-soprano from Seattle, WA who excels in operatic, concert, and choral settings. As an alumna of St. James Cathedral's Jubilate! Young Women's Ensemble, she continues to cantor regularly and has performed in many large choral works, including Duruflé's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Fauré's Requiem, Mahler Symphony No. 2, and as a soloist in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. In 2018, she traveled with the St. James choirs on a tour in Rome, Vatican City, Florence, and Assisi, Italy, where she was the Soprano II Soloist in Fauré's Tantum Ergo. She has performed with Seattle Opera on the mainstage—in the children's chorus of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (2016) and as Zweite Knabe in Mozart's The Magic Flute (2017). Other past roles include Mrs. Hildebrand in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Isabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, and Erste Dame in Mozart's The Magic Flute as a participant in Pacific Lutheran University's Summer Opera Workshop; Odysseus in Ben Moore's youth opera Odyssey performed with Seattle Opera's Teen Vocal Studio; and Cupid in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, The Old Lady in Candide, and Prince Charming in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Northwestern’s undergraduate opera company Opera Projects For Undergraduate Students.

Emily has had the immense pleasure of working under Kelly Kitchens, Nicole Sonbert, Paul Thornock, Joseph Adam, and her voice teacher, Nancy Zylstra. She recently graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied English Literature and Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Karen Brunssen.

Emily was a Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellow in 2024.