Susie Summers

Location:

Elgin, Moray
United Kingdom IV30

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 Elgin, Moray and I also frequently travel to the Central belt.

MA (Cantab.) PG Dip (RAM)

BIOGRAPHY

Susie Summers is in demand as a chamber music pianist and accompanist. She has appeared in recital at venues all over the UK and in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong. 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.

Susie has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 'In Tune' and appeared on BBC2 and BBC 4 television, as well as ABC Radio Australia. She was a founder member of the Del Mar piano trio, with whom she performed for eight years, and was for several years the Phoebe Benham Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music.

Susie graduated with distinction in Piano Accompaniment from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007, studying with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson. She also studied the piano with Ronald Smith and holds an MA in music from Cambridge University.

While studying at the Academy, Susie received many prizes and awards. Her piano and wind sextet won the Academy’s Harold Craxton chamber music prize, and she was pianist in the winning ensembles for both the Harry Isaacs Piano Trio prize and the John Ireland Prize. She received a Stephen Bell bursary, the Winifred Disney Bursary and the Colin Murray Scholarship, and was awarded the John B. McEwen Prize on graduation.

Susie is an official accompanist to the 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, Lake District Summer Music and Birmingham Conservatoire. Susie has a strong commitment to music education and her teaching posts have included Head of Keyboard at Bootham School, York.

Fees

£ 40.00 Pounds Per Hour
Rehearsal fees depend on location.
Discounted rates may be available for those in full time education.

Performance fees from £300 depending on location.

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment

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