Emma Pearson performs in Handel's Messiah.

Emma Pearson was the principal artist at the Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, in Germany from 2005 until 2014. During this time, she performed over 30 roles for the company, including the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Woglinde, Gerhilde and Waldvogel in Wagner's Ring Cycle, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Norina (Don Pasquale) to critical acclaim. On her departure from the company, the State of Hessen awarded Emma the honorary title of Kammersängerin. She is the youngest opera singer to have ever received this title.

Emma has also sung Gilda (Rigoletto) for Theater St Gallen Switzerland, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken Clorinda (La Cenerentola) for Semperoper Dresden, Nannetta for Nationaltheater Mannheim, Sophie for Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest and Orquestra de Valencia, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for the City of London Festival and Missa Solemnis in Bratislava. On her departure from Wiesbaden, the State of Hessen awarded Emma the honorary title of Kammersängerin.

In Australia, Emma has performed the title role in Athalia for Pinchgut Opera, Contessa di Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims), the Queen of the Night and Sophie for Opera Australia, Violetta (La Traviata) for Opera Queensland, the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and The Cunning Little Vixen, Micaela (Carmen), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) and Jennifer (The Riders) for West Australian Opera, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Micaela for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and State Opera South Australia, and has been featured soloist at UKARIA 24 and the Four Winds Festival, Bermagui.

For Southern Opera New Zealand she has sung Queen of the Night, and for New Zealand Opera, Frasquita and Micaela in Carmen, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Gilda and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte). In 2020 Emma will perform the title role in Handel's Semele for New Zealand Opera, Bach B Minor Mass with the Orpheus Choir Wellington.

Emma completed her Bachelor of Music (Vocal Performance) from the University of Western Australia (1998 – 2001). She continued her studies at the Australian Opera Studio. During this time she won the Australian Singing Competition, the Symphony Australia Young Artist Prize and the More Than Opera German-Australian Opera Grant, which led to her contract at the Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden.