Biography Susie Summers has a busy career, mainly focussed 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 BBC 4 television. She is a member the Del Mar piano trio, with whom she performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto in 2011. 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, and she works regularly as a freelance accompanist at both the Royal College and Royal Academy.
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 New Virtuosi Violin Mastercourse, and is a staff accompanist at Trinity College of Music Junior Department, having previously held this post at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Susie has a strong commitment to music education and is part-time Head of Keyboard at Bootham School. | Repertoire
Contact susie@susiesummers.co.uk
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