Choral Conducter, Music Educator and TV and Radio Broadcaster. Suzi has wanted to form a world-class Youth Choir in London ever since her extraordinary year on her Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship (awarded via Sir David Willcocks) in the category of “Trainers of Children’s Choirs”, which took her ‘round the world, observing and analysing the very best. Suzi graduated with honours in musicology from King’s College, London where she studied piano, singing, conducting, arts administration and music education pedagogy. In 1993, Suzi created The Voices Foundation, the UK’s leading National Primary Music Education Foundation whose pedagogical approach and methodology are world renowned. Suzi has been at the vanguard of the revival of singing in schools and the community in the UK over the past 18 years. In May 2011 Suzi launched her new Foundation, Vocal Futures: building next generation’s classical music audiences (16-22s) with a debate in the Cambridge Union, co-hosted by Stephen Fry. “This House Believes that Classical Music is no Longer Relevant to Today’s Young.” Suzi is a trustee of Music in Country Churches, among other music and education charities. She is on the Council of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, chairing the arts categories. She is President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and was Acting Music Director of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Abroad, Suzi is Professor of the Practice of Music, Thornton School, University of Southern California. Suzi founded and is MD for the company Artsworks (leadership and teambuilding for multinational corporates), adjudicates and workshops choirs worldwide and is choral adviser for Novello music publishers. Suzi founded the award-winning “Coro” and “Voce”, acknowledged as among London’s best chamber choirs. She has commissioned numerous new compositions and has conducted the London Mozart Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment among other ensembles in the UK’s most prestigious venues, including the Royal Albert Hall and King’s Chapel, Cambridge. Amongst many TV appearances, Suzi was a judge on BBC1′s hit show, Last Choir Standing, which attracted over 10 million viewers as well as BBC Choir of the Year. She received the OBE from the Queen for outstanding services to music education in 2009. |
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