# @uosomd on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C6t9SnSskgE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17300637-uosomd-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-05-08T18:51:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UOregon Music+Dance (@UOSOMD) — https://gondola.cc/UOSOMD

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#GraduateSpotlight: Emma Jones 🎓

Emma is a voice performance major whose operatic career is off to a great start! 

From Hillsboro, Oregon, she has made her mark on the professional stage here in Eugene ✨

"SOMD has prepared me for my future career by really honing my discipline, and giving me a lot of experience in the professional music field that I never would have been able to get otherwise!" Emma said. 

Her professional credits include the title role in Cascadia Chamber Opera's production of The Banshee & the Second Knabe in Eugene Opera's production of Die Zauberflöte. 

"My experience at the SOMD has been so incredible!" Emma said. "I’ve made amazing friends, performed world class music with wonderful musicians, and gotten to work with faculty members that have shaped me as a musician in ways I never expected."

Emma is also a soloist with the Women's Choral Society and has sung several roles with UO Opera, including the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Zerline in Don Giovanni, Charlotte in a Little Night Music, and Cinderella in SOMD's Elementary Outreach.

"Emma is a young, talented actor-singer that does not back away from a challenge!" Senior Instructor Dr. Karen Esquivel said. "Her smarts, her willingness to take on outrageously difficult music, and her very effective communication of the text are her hallmarks." 

After graduation she will continue taking voice lessons in Portland with Ruth Dobson, and she plans to audition for regional opera companies! #DuckGrad24

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