Suzie was born in Birmingham in 1987 but now lives in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. After being awarded a Recital Certificate (with Honours) from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, when only 12 years old, she was offered a scholarship by Southend-on-Sea Music Services to study at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music with Sarah Francis. Her studies at the Junior RCM were subsequently supported by bursaries from ‘Awards for Young Musicians’, the ‘Tom Acton Memorial Trust’ and the DfES ‘Music and Dance Scheme’. Whilst at the Junior RCM Suzie won many competitions and prizes and performed several concertos with Richard Dickins including the Vaughan-Williams Oboe Concerto.

Suzie has reached the televised woodwind finals of the BBC Young Musician competition on two occasions. She won the ‘John Lill Award’ at the Essex Young Musician Competition in 2005 and was awarded the Sussex Woodwind Prize in the 2006 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition. She also reached the Woodwind Final of TWIYCA (the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition) last year and was awarded third prize.

Suzie became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of GB in 2002 and became principal oboe in 2004. After leaving the NYO last year she was invited to play with the Britten-Pears Orchestra and has played principal oboe with them at the Maltings in Snape.

In September 2006 she was awarded a Major Scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust to study at the Royal Academy of Music where she is currently studying oboe with Tess Miller and Cor Anglais with Geoffrey Browne. She has recently performed with a wind ensemble from the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the LSO Discovery Series at St. Luke’s. She has also been selected to take part in the LSO ‘Woodwind Academy’ for “the most promising young woodwind players in the UK”.

Suzie is delighted that the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra have given her the opportunity to perform the Strauss Concerto - a mainstay of the 20th Century Oboe repertoire - with them and Richard Dickins.