After leaving KLB Emily White studied trombone and violin at The Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Trinity College of Music, London. She received the 2006 Ludwig Lebell Bursary Award and won the Ella Kidney Early Music Prize 2007.

Emily is a member of The English Cornette and Sackbut Ensemble who won the Gramophone Early Music Awards 2011 and The Diapason d’Or de l’annee, Chaconne Brass, The Isla Quartet and Pandoras Box who appear in the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Emily freelances with ensembles such as The Academy of Ancient Music, English National Ballet, His Majesties Sagbuts and Cornettes, The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Ex Cathedra. Emily has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre since 1997. With them she has toured Seoul, Tokyo and Chicago and was musical director of Much Ado About Nothing, 2008. Emily also played in the 2012/13 production of Twelfth Night.

She has played with The Tiger Lilies, Paul McCartney and appeared playing the trombone on Eastenders!