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.