Emilie Capulet is an award-winning international concert pianist, lecturer, writer and musicologist. Described by Anne Grafteaux Geli in Utmisol magazine as having a “heightened musical sensitivity, total emotion, a magical touch at once sensual, vigorous and varied”, she is regularly invited to give solo piano recitals, lecture-recitals and chamber music concerts in international music festivals and concert halls in Europe, the USA, Canada and Latin America. Recent engagements include a concert tour of Holland with recitals in Amsterdam and North Brabant, a performance at the Ottawa Valley Music Festival in Ontario and a concert at the B.A.R.N. in Pontiac, Quebec, concerts in France for the European Heritage Day and the Château de Lourmarin, recitals in the UK at Kings Place, Cheltenham Town Hall, Winchester Cathedral, Buxton Opera House, the Halifax Festival, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Guildford International Music Festival, the Sevenoaks Summer Festival, the Princes Theatre (Clacton) for the Clacton Arts & Literary Society, The Woodville Theatre and the Woodford Concert Society. Chamber music recitals include Dvorak’s piano quintet in the historic Holywell Music Room in Oxford with the Tippett Quartet and a performance in the Ealing Music and Film Festival with the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble. She has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Coldstream Guards and LCM Camerata in London, and has recently appeared with the Portsmouth Festival Choir as soloist in Constant Lambert’s Rio Grande at Portsmouth Cathedral. Regularly invited as guest artist on luxury cruise liners, she has performed on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and has led musical cruises on the Rhine and the Danube, as well as cultural tours to music festivals in France.

Emilie has recorded a CD of works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP, the chamber music and solo piano works by contemporary composer Richard Lambert on the Quartz label and she has just released a double album featuring the first recording

of the complete solo piano music of Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) on the Calliope label in 2020 to great critical acclaim. It has been awarded the ‘Grand Frisson 2020’ by Audiophile Magazine and ffff in Pizzicato Magazine, and has been featured in leading music journals in France such as L’Education Musicale, Les Chroniques de Benito Pelegrin, Utmisol, etc.

Emilie has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Canada, France Musique (France), Radio Télévision Suisse (Switzerland), Bayern Klassik (Germany), RCF Radio (France), IDfm (France), France Bleu (France), Radio Nostalgie (France),  and Nicaraguan television and radio. 

In addition to her busy solo career, Emilie has built a strong reputation as a lecture-recitalist and guest speaker. She often gives talks on the relations between music, literature and painting in international conferences and music societies. Invited by Glyndebourne to give pre-performance lectures on their operatic touring season, Emilie has also appeared for the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Grande-Bretagne, the Cercle Français of Esher and the Amitiés Françaises of Godalming, as well as lecturing for Rivages du Monde and ACE Cultural Tours. As well as a Master of Music (MMus) in Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, her interest in the arts as a whole has earned her an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on the musicality of Modernist literature. She has published on many aspects of music history and contemporary music performance practices, as well as on music in healthcare. Her book on Virginia Woolf: a Musical Life, was published by Bloomsbury Heritage and she regularly writes Prefaces for the Repertoire & Opera Explorer series of study scores published by Musikproduktion Hoeflich (Heidelberg). 

Described as an "inspirational music educator", "brilliant", "passionate", "compelling" and "inspiring" by her students, Emilie is often invited to give piano masterclasses and workshops in schools and universities worldwide, including most recently, in the UK, Chichester University, Hazelwood School and Trinity School, Croydon. She has also given piano masterclasses in Asia at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guanzhou, China, the Hong Kong Baptist University and at the London College of Music's Hong Kong campus at the Nan Yang College of Higher Education. She was recently invited to give a masterclass and lecture-recital at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.

Emilie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has just been appointed BMus (Hons) Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, located in the Old Royal Naval College, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Greenwich. She has previously been Head of Classical Performance Studies, BMus (Hons) Performance and MMus Performance Course Leader at the London College of Music, University of West London and lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Surrey. She is a member of the Peer Review Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her exceptional contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.