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BIOGRAPHY
Described
in The Sunday Times as ‘a lustrous mezzo soprano’ and now specialising
in contemporary song, lieder and oratorio, Susan regularly broadcasts
on radio and has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St.
John, Smith’s Square and opera galas at St. James’s Palace and British
Embassies in Moscow, Copenhagen, Lisbon and Stockholm. Oratorios have
taken her to Durham, Chichester and Arundel Cathedrals, Romsey,
Dorchester and Worth Abbeys, and Spitalfields and Cadogan Hall,
London. Operatic engagements included Glyndebourne, Bayreuth,
Wexford, Aldeburgh and the Walton Trust, Ischia. Susan has
performed all Elgar’s works, Bach’s Passions, Verdi and Mozart
Requiems, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, and toured
Handel’s Messiah in Mexico.
Susan’s voice – which legendary
mezzo Christa Ludwig described as ‘beautiful … with a fine coloratura’
– can be heard on many films and award winning video games including
the number one game Project Cars for composer Stephen Baysted. An
accomplished pianist, having studied with Clifford Benson and Phyllis
Sellick, Susan recently recorded and co-composed the soundtrack for the
feature film ‘The Impressionists’ (‘dazzling’ Sydney Arts Guide) and
Laurie Dunkin-Wedd’s musique concrète score Brancusi for solo mezzo and
industrial sounds.
Projects with pianist Ann
Martin-Davis encompass commissioned song-cycles from Graham Fitkin,
Howard Skempton and Gabriel Jackson and an International tour of Mr
James’ Garden, celebrating Edward James’s surrealist Mexican garden Las
Pozas. Their CD Heaven-Haven - The Songs of Peter Pope followed a
definitive Lutosławski chamber music recording, described as ‘beautiful
and exquisite’ by BBC Music Magazine.
Susan won the National Mozart
Singing Competition whilst still a student at the Royal College of
Music and other accolades since completing her training at the National
Opera Studio are: Richard Tauber Schubert Society Prize; Tillett
Trust’s Young Artists' Platform; Kathleen Ferrier Awards; Belvedere
International Singing Competition, Vienna (finalist); and British
representative in the Queen Sonja International Music Competition,
Norway.
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