
Passionate about the arts and choral education, Suzzie’s high-energy workshops and dynamic choral programmes have gained her an international reputation, working with singers of all ages. In demand as a soprano, choral director and vocal coach, she directs and sings with the critically acclaimed female a cappella quintet Papagena, conducts the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain and is an adjudicator and guest conductor for many UK vocal ensembles and festivals. Recent collaborations have seen her working with: the London Symphony Orchestra, Vache Baroque, Sing for Pleasure, Sing Ireland, ABCD and the National Youth Choirs.
Suzzie is Music of Life Choirs at Special Schools Programme Leader. She founded the first school choir project for Music of Life in 2014, and since then she has been leading on the growth and development of the programme, delivering the weekly sessions, introducing new choirs, managing and training the teams, developing repertoire and constantly looking to engage new talented musicians in working with special needs students.
She has run projects in Uganda, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Thailand, the USA and across Europe, with recent visits to Scotland, Ireland, France and Kenya.
Suzzie is Associate Artist at the University of Warwick, Singing Teacher at the University of Birmingham, and a vocal tutor for Ex Cathedra Education’s award winning projects: Singing Playgrounds and Singing Medicine. Her own compositions have been published in Ex Cathedra’s SingMaker series, Sing for Pleasure publications, Choral Music Publications and in OUP’s Carols for Choirs 6.
Her career as a soprano has taken her around the world, conducting, performing and recording with some of the top UK vocal ensembles, and her multi-award winning warm up book ‘How to Make Your Choir Sound Awesome’, written with Lucy Hollins, was published by Banks Music Publications in 2022.