Emica is delighted to continue her third year of studies at ANAM in 2026, with Alison Mitchell.
Emica began learning the flute in 2012 with Elvira Dommisse in Christchurch, New Zealand. 2021 saw Emica’s passion for music to study at Te Kōkī – The New Zealand School of Music (NZSM), Victoria University of Wellington. Under the tutelage of Kirstin Eade, Principal Flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), Emica received her Bachelor of Music in 2023, majoring in classical flute performance.
While at the NZSM, Emica was presented with the Music Directors Award, the Therle Drake Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Music, and the NZSM Award in Woodwind Performance for 2022 and 2023. She is a regrantee with the Inspire Foundation and in 2025 was awarded the Leslie Barklamb Scholarship by the Victorian Flute Guild.
Emica especially loves performing with orchestras, and from 2022 to 2023 was Principal Flute of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra. She has regularly performed with Orchestra Wellington and the NZSO.
Emica’s performance highlight at ANAM thus far has been performing Jacques Ibert’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for the ANAM Concerto Competition Final in 2024. Her exposure to orchestral and chamber performances has inspired Emica to pursue this as her career.
You will see Emica without her flute when she is jogging, reading, or enjoying time with friends and family.
FROM: NZ / Aotearoa.
Emica is supported by ANAM Syndicate donors Peter and Annie Duncan, Ann Grant, Merilyn and the late David Howorth, Fiona MacDonald and Graham McConnell, Cynthia and David O'Keefe, Mark Pearce, Rowan Streiff, Jan Williams.
Photo by Pia Johnson