Emica Taylor started learning the flute in 2012 with Elvira Dommisse in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her passion for music led her to Wellington in 2021 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. In 2023 she also received the NZSO Giese Flute Grant, NYO Alex Lindsay Special Award, a Freemasons Lankhuyzen/Whetu-Kairangi Music Award, and a grant with the Inspire Foundation.
Emica especially loves performing with orchestras, and from 2022 to 2023 she was the principal flute of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra, regularly performing with Orchestra Wellington and the NZSO as a casual member.
Emica’s performance highlight at ANAM was performing the Ibert Flute Concerto with the TSO in the ANAM Concerto Competition Final in 2024.
In 2025, Emica is delighted to continue her second year of studies at ANAM with Alison Mitchell. Her exposure to orchestral and chamber performances has inspired her to pursue this as her career.
You will see Emica without her flute when she is jogging, reading, or 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, Mark Pearce, Jan Williams, Cynthia and David O'Keefe.
Photo by Pia Johnson