Suzie studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department before being awarded an Elton John Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst at the Academy she won both the Janet Craxton and Leila Bull Oboe Prizes. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious RAM Club Prize. Suzie represented the Academy as a soloist in Europe and Japan as well as throughout the UK. She also played on several BBC Radio 3 broadcasts with chamber ensembles from the Academy.  On graduating she was awarded the HRH Princess Alice’s Prize for exemplary studentship.

In 2011 Suzie won the Royal Over-Seas League Wind Solo Prize and was also a Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT)  Finalist. She was a founder member of the St James Quintet – winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize in 2009 and is also a member of the Rose Trio – Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize winners in 2010.

Suzie has been principal oboe with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Britten-Pears Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra. She has also played principal oboe with the CBSO, the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, BBC NOW, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  She made her Wigmore Hall debut in June 2011 and has recorded the Poulenc and Saint-Saëns oboe sonatas for EMI.

She is currently Section Leader Oboe with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

 

Suzie plays on a Howarth XL oboe