Meet Emma
A life shaped by music, curiosity, creativity — and the ongoing discovery of what it means to become more fully alive.
My first great love was probably my father.
We were deeply connected, and it was through him — and his own love of music — that my ears first opened to it. I was a playful child, and the piano became another place to play: somewhere to explore, invent and discover what sounds I could make.
As I grew older, that freedom became harder to access. Music became more serious, and gradually became entangled with insecurity, the fear of making mistakes and the question of whether I was good enough.
And yet I stayed with it. I studied, performed and taught music, building much of my professional life around it. Somewhere beneath the uncertainty, the love was still there.
Many years later, when I was already in my forties, I worked with the wonderful pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein in New York. At one point he said to me:
“You are the most musical person I have ever met.”
I was astonished.
He could see something in me that I had not yet learned to recognise for myself.
In many ways, the journey that followed has been about exactly that: learning to recognise and trust what is already within us.
As I began exploring intuition, embodiment, meditation and the inner life, I started listening differently — not only to music, but to myself. And the more I opened to a greater sense of who I was and what I might become, the more freely I found my way back to music.
I rediscovered how much I love performing. How much I love the exchange between performer and listener, when music touches something in us that words cannot quite reach.
At the same time, my work with people deepened. I found myself drawn to those moments when someone begins to recognise something within themselves that has been doubted, obscured or forgotten — a capacity, a longing, a creative impulse, a sense of value, a direction, a love for something that once made them feel intensely alive.
For a while, these parts of my life seemed to belong to different worlds.
Eventually, I understood that they were never really separate.
They were all ways of listening.
Through music. Through the body. Through intuition, conversation and creativity. Listening for what resonates, what stirs something within us, what makes us feel more unmistakably ourselves.
Today, those strands have come together in the work I create — as a musician, author, facilitator and guide.
And the thread running through all of it is simple:
Creating spaces in which more of who we are can be recognised, expressed — and brought fully alive.
Music & Guidance
Two expressions
of the same
deeper work.
My work today moves through two deeply connected languages: music and guidance.
As a musician, I perform, compose and create experiences through piano, voice and story. Sometimes music stands entirely on its own — simply to be heard, felt and enjoyed. At other times, it becomes part of a larger experience, creating connection, reflection and a different way of being together.
My work as a guide is equally varied. I work privately with individuals and couples, with groups, young people and organisations, creating spaces for people to explore what is happening within them, recognise their own resources and value, and reconnect with what gives them a sense of direction, possibility and aliveness.
Sometimes these two worlds remain distinct.
Increasingly, they also meet — in retreats, workshops, performances and shared experiences where music, creativity, conversation and embodied awareness can all become part of the exploration.
I don't believe there is one way back to ourselves.
Sometimes we need words. Sometimes we need movement, music or silence. Sometimes we need another person to listen closely enough that we begin to hear ourselves differently.
What matters to me is creating the space in which something real can be recognised — and something new can begin.
Experience & Background
The experience behind the work
My work draws on more than three decades of professional experience across music, performance, teaching, creative collaboration and personal development.
I studied music, piano and performance at NTNU, the Trondheim Conservatory of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, alongside studies in drama and theatre. My professional life has included performing, accompanying and collaborating with other musicians, teaching piano and music, and contributing to and leading creative and artistic projects.
Alongside music, I have spent many years exploring the connection between body, mind, intuition and our inner experience. My training includes somatic coaching, meditation, embodied practices and approaches to personal development, which now inform my work with individuals, couples and groups.
I am also an author, and my book, You. Me. And All That We Are, grew from many of the questions that continue to shape my work: questions of identity, self-worth, inner guidance, connection and what it means to live more fully as ourselves.
Over the years, I have worked with people across different ages, backgrounds and cultures — privately, in groups, through music, teaching, retreats and shared experiences.
What I bring to that work is not one particular method, but a breadth of experience — and an ability to listen for what is needed in the moment.