Emma-Ruth’s music has been performed on the international stage, taking her to Hong Kong, Den Haag, Banff, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. She is a Royal Northern Gold Medal composer and has featured in festivals including Aldeburgh, Music of Today, Sounds New Canterbury, Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Den Haag, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sound Scotland, Queen’s Belfast, North West, and the St. Magnus Festival. Emma-Ruth studied at Cardiff University and then at the Royal Northern College of Music, and has since studied with composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Oliver Knussen, and Alexander Goehr and Colin Matthews.