About Emily-Rose

Emily-Rose Sharkova is a shape-shifting music artist, composer and producer from Australia, whose work spans folk, art pop, jazz, electronic and experimental realms. Known for her crystalline vocals and emotive instrumentalism, she leads Emily-Rose and The Wild and collaborates across projects including Slow Streams, Shark & Fox, Little Clouds, Szinata and The Good Behaviours. Her music is grounded in deep listening as well as explosive joy, passion for environmental activism, the natural world and emotional resonance — leading her to create soundscapes that are intimate, expansive, unexpected and un-contained.

As a performer, she uses piano, synths, accordion and voice to weave a very special kind of magic. A finalist in the 2023 Art Music Awards, an ARIA nominated artist and a prolific traveller – touring her music in Australia, Canada and the the UK – Emily-Rose has traversed music in the classical realm, become a specialist in Argentine Tango, left that all behind to focus on her own original music, almost retrained as a permaculturalist during the 2020 Covid pandemic, and now often finds herself wondering how to continue the important work as an artist in a world that seems to value internet connection over true human to nature connection. 

As a music producer, she has co-produced all her own albums, as well as most recently ‘That Heavy Magnetism’ by Ofri, and ‘Album X’ by Magickal Ms G. She owns Peppermint Grove Studios, which is a hub for creative projects and recordings in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney on Dharawal Country, and she also runs Bespoke Folk Music, a boutique agency arranging tours and concerts in the folk adjacent space. 

As an educator, Emily-Rose has taught for 20 years and, since graduating from a degree in classical piano in 2010, has expanded her methods of teaching to cater for a wide variety of learning modes. She is particularly passionate about the understanding of music as an aural language. 

She is currently searching for ways she might use her music for positive change in the world. 

Go exploring her projects below…