Susie Summers

Location:

London and Cambridge
United Kingdom CB22

Contact:

07545 329927
www.susiesummers.co.uk

Additional Info:

Prizewinning Accompanist, trained at the Royal Academy of Music.

I work with instrumentalists and singers from professionals to beginners and young people. I am an excellent sight reader and have a large and varied repertoire and extensive performing experience.

I am based in South Cambridgeshire and I also frequently work in London, including at all the main Conservatoires.

MA (Cantab.) PG Dip (RAM)

BIOGRAPHY

Susie Summers has a busy career, mainly focused on chamber music and accompaniment. She has frequently been invited to appear at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, the Ryedale Festival, in recital with YCAT artists and for music clubs around the country, and closer to her London home she has performed at St. John’s, Smith Square, Blackheath Concert Halls, Cadogan Hall, and St. James’, Piccadilly. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 3 'In Tune' and on BBC2 and BBC 4 television. She was a founder member of the Del Mar piano trio, with whom she worked for eight years.

Susie graduated with distinction in Piano Accompaniment from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007. She studied with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson. In 2001 she graduated in music from Cambridge University, after which she studied the piano privately with Ronald Smith. From 2008 to 2010 she was the Phoebe Benham Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music.

While studying at the Academy, Susie received many prizes and awards. She was funded by a Stephen Bell bursary, the Winifred Disney Bursary and the Colin Murray Scholarship, and she was awarded the John B. McEwen Prize on graduation. In 2006 Susie won the Academy’s Harold Craxton chamber music prize, the Harry Isaacs Piano Trio prize and the John Ireland Prize.

Susie is an official accompanist to the Lake District International Summer School and British Isles Music Festival, and has been a staff accompanist at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music Junior Department and Birmingham Conservatoire. Susie has a strong commitment to music education and is part-time Head of Keyboard at Bootham School.

Fees

Rehearsal fees depend on location
Discounted rates may be available for students in full time conservatoire education

Performance fees from £100 depending on location.

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

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