Adelaide born and bred, Emma Kavanagh toured internationally with the Australian Girls Choir, before commencing her studies in Classical Voice at Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium, and graduating with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. 

Emma was honoured to perform as the guest vocalist on Mirusia Louwerse’s 2018 From the Heart Australian tour and since then has appeared as a special guest at many of Mirusia’s concert performances across Australia. Emma recently featured on Mirusia’s Duets Album with the single The Flower Duet and appeared as a headliner artist in the 2023 & 2024 Australia Day Live Concerts at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, where she performed The Flower Duet with Mirusia, musically directed by John Foreman and broadcast nationally on ABC. 

Emma was a featured tap dancer in Christopher Horsey’s 2021 Short Film, Killing in the Name of Tap, shot by ARIA Award winning film company Visible Studios, and was selected as a Semi-finalist for the 2020 Rob Guest Endowment Award. 

She made her operatic debut as La Conversa & Sorella Cercatrice in Mopoke Theatre Company’s 2022 production of Suor Angelica, performed in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the 2023 Adelaide Festival, and made her State Opera South Australia debut in Pirates of Penzance directed by Stuart Maunder. Emma returned to the Adelaide Festival in 2024 where she featured in Stravinsky’s The Nightingale and Other Fables.