One of the first female choral scholars at Trinity, Cambridge, Susanna subsequently studied at the Guildhall. A highly experienced concert singer, her solo engagements have included appearances at the Royal Festival Hall with Simon Rattle and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Stravinsky's Mass and with Kurt Masur and the LPO in Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (both for Radio 3), at the Royal Albert Hall with David Willcocks in Messiah and Elijah, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music with the English Chamber Orchestra and at the BBC Proms in Schubert's Die Verschworenen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Nicholas McGegan. She sang in Trevor Pinnock's performances of Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions in Europe, Japan and Turkey and has performed all the major works of the oratorio repertoire in the UK's principal concert halls and cathedrals. These include Mahler's Eighth Symphony in Edinburgh's Usher Hall, Verdi's Requiem in the Barbican and Winchester Cathedral and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in The Maltings, Snape. She has sung for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Kent Opera and Opera de Lyon and her recordings include Paul Patterson's Missa Brevis with the LPO, Poulenc's Le Dialogue des Carmelites with Kent Nagano, Britten with The Finzi Singers, Beethoven's Choral Fantasia and works by Percy Grainger with John Eliot Gardiner, and Biber's Missa Christi resurgentis for Andrew Manze and The English Concert.

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