Biography
Susie Summers graduated with distinction from the Postgraduate Diploma
Course in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied
with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson. In 2001 she took her undergraduate
degree in music from Cambridge University, after which she studied the piano
privately with Ronald Smith. Susie is now the
Phoebe Benham Junior Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal College of
Music.
While at the Academy, Susie was the recipient of both 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, for which she also received
the second prize as a vocal accompanist.
Susie regularly gives recitals with
instrumentalists and singers at venues around the country. She has frequently been invited to
appear at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and the Ryedale Festival and
closer to home has performed at St. John’s, Smith Square, Blackheath Concert
Halls, Cadogan Hall, and St. James’, Piccadilly.
Susie is an official accompanist to the
Lake District International Summer School and a Junior School Accompanist at
Trinity College of Music, having previously held this post at the Birmingham
Conservatoire.