biography
Susie Summers graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied on the Postgraduate Diploma Course in Piano Accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson. She completed her undergraduate studies in music at Cambridge University, and subsequently studied the piano with Ronald Smith. Susie will hold the Phoebe Benham Junior Fellowship in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music from September 2008.
While at the Academy, Susie won many awards for accompaniment and chamber music. She was the recipient of both the Winifred Disney Bursary and the Colin Murray Scholarship and was awarded the John B. McEwen Prize on graduation. In 2006 Susie won the Academy’s Harold Craxton chamber music prize. Her trio, the Del Mar Piano Trio, won both the Harry Isaacs Piano Trio prize and the John Ireland Prize, for which Susie also received the second prize as a vocal accompanist.
Susie has worked with many high profile artists in recent years, including baritone Hakan Vramsmo, flautist Adam Walker and cellists Mark Sheridan and Morwenna Del Mar (winner of the LSO PROMIS Award). In 2008 she will give a recital with mezzo soprano Wendy Dawn Thompson as part of Lake District Summer Music.
Susie regularly gives recitals with instrumentalists and singers at venues around the country. She has appeared regularly 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 accompanies students in the London Conservatoires and is an official accompanist to the Lake District International Summer School. She is also a Junior School Accompanist at Trinity College of Music, having previously held this post at the Birmingham Conservatoire.