Emily Roberts
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| Born | Emily Jane Roberts 5 February 1998 (age 26) Cheshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, composer, producer, mandololinist, flautist, vocalist |
| Years active | 2014-present |
| Known for | Guitarist of the Last Dinner Party |
| Website | www.thelastdinnerparty.co.uk |
Emily Jane Roberts (born 5 February 1998) is the lead guitarist of the British indie rock band the Last Dinner Party. She has a background in jazz and classical music.
Early life and education
[edit]Emily Jane Roberts was born on 5 February 1998, in Cheshire, England. She began playing guitar at the age of six after being inspired by Carly Simon's performance at the end of Piglet's Big Movie; however, she initially found guitar lessons boring and quit. At age nine, she returned to the instrument, learning acoustic guitar from a local teacher she connected with.[1]
Roberts moved to Manchester to attend Chetham's School of Music, where she studied both jazz and classical guitar. During her time there, she was a member of Chetham's Big Band and the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra.[2] She later accepted a place in the BMus Jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After graduating, Roberts was awarded the Guildhall Artists Fellowship and became a semi-finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition in 2020.
Career
[edit]Roberts' professional career began in 2014 when she joined the Creative Leadership Ensemble, a project focused on composing, running workshops, and leading a band to encourage women in jazz. In March 2016, she performed with the Women of the World Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall alongside Sister Sledge and played at the Wigan International Jazz Festival with Eric Marienthal later that year.[3]
In September 2016, Roberts participated in the "21st Century Pastoral" concert at the Barbican Concert Hall, collaborating with Iain Ballamy and the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra.[4] She gained experience in musical theater by serving as the official electric guitar, mandolin, bass, and acoustic guitar dep for the West End production of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour at the Duke of York’s Theatre during the summer of 2017.[5]
Roberts toured with Neo-folk artist Blanco White in 2018 and performed with various artists across different genres. She joined a Queen tribute band called Fat Bottomed Girls in 2019 which took part at numerous festivals and events.[3]
In 2021, Roberts released her solo jazz EP, The Persistence of Memory.[6] Roberts played as a session guitarist for the the musical Six,[7] before joining the Last Dinner Party in 2022. She plays lead guitar, mandolin,[8] and flute, and contributes backing vocals. In reviews of the Last Dinner Party's debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, Robert's guitar playing was described as "soaring, impressively stadium-ready axe heroics".[9] Her live performances have also attracted positive reviews, with music critic Kitty Empire noting how Roberts "peels off rock solos with a Mona Lisa smile ... [and] precision and sangfroid".[10]
Roberts participates in the indie rock scene, and her favorite songs to play live include "Sinner" and "Second Best[2]".
References
[edit]- ^ Q101 (2024-04-10). The Last Dinner Party - Interview in #TheLounge. Retrieved 2024-09-23 – via YouTube.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "15 questions | Interview | Emily Jane Roberts | Beyond the Safety Limit". 15questions.net. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ a b Spy, Theatre. "Let's Hear it for the Girls featuring some of most impressive female voices of the West End". Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Home | Emily Roberts Guitarist". web.archive.org. 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Hunt, Elle (June 28, 2024). "The Last Dinner Party on misogyny, maximalism and making it big: 'Men think they're the arbiters of rock'" – via The Guardian.
- ^ Sharma, Amit (July 2, 2024). ""It wasn't a conscious decision to invent our own scale! The idea was to do something inspired by Jeff Buckley... but we added a mandolin": The Last Dinner Party's Emily Roberts is the jazz-schooled Queen-inspired indie guitar hero you've been waiting for". guitarworld.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (February 1, 2024). "The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy review – the year's most hyped band totally deliver" – via The Guardian.
- ^ Empire, Kitty (February 3, 2024). "The Last Dinner Party review – like watching firecrackers going off indoors" – via The Guardian.
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