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 and 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. As pianist of the Del Mar Piano Trio she won the Academy’s Harry Isaacs Piano Trio prize as well as the John Ireland Prize, in which Susie also received the second prize as a vocal accompanist.

Susie has recently appeared at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, where she will return in August 2007 to give a recital with Baritone Hakan Vramsmo as part of the Rising Stars series. She has given recitals for the Ryedale Festival, at St James’, Piccadilly, Cheltenham Town Hall and for music clubs around the country, as well as appearing at St John’s, Smith Square, Blackheath Concert Halls and Cadogan Hall.

Susie is a Junior School Accompanist at Trinity College of Music, having previously held this post at the Birmingham Conservatoire. She works in the London Conservatoires, accompanying entrance auditions as well as recitals and examinations. In 2007 she will be an official accompanist to the Lake District International Summer School.

Susie has played orchestral piano and celeste with the Brunel Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra Anglia, Opera East, the Pepys Ensemble and Connecting Arts. She completed her undergraduate studies at Cambridge University (where she read music) in 2001, and subsequently studied the piano for two years with Ronald Smith.