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Suzi Digby OBE B Mus Hon DMus

choral conductor, music educator and social entrepreneur

HERE ARE TWO SHORT FILMS OF HER RECENT WORK:

 

Suzi Digby was born in Japan and lived in Hong Kong, Mexico and the Philippines before settling in the UK, in London, Cambridge and now Bath. She is an internationally renowned choral conductor and music educator. She has trail-blazed the revival of singing in UK schools and the community over three decades. Suzi founded the following pioneering National Arts/education organisations: The Voices Foundation (the UK’s leading Primary Music Education Charity); Voce Chamber Choir; Vocal Futures (nurturing young [aged 16-22] audiences for Classical Music); Singing4Success (leadership and ‘Accelerated Learning’ for Corporates) and London Youth Choir (a pyramid of 9 choirs, [aged 8-22], serving multiple diverse communities in London’s 33 boroughs). Her professional vocal consort, ORA Singers (commissioning choral works as ‘reflections’ of Renaissance masterworks) won Germany’s Opus Klassik for Best Ensemble of the Year, 2018. Suzi is recognised as one of the leading commissioners of new choral music in the world (with two Ivor Novello awards for her commissions).

In 2014, Suzi launched one of the finest professional consorts in California, The Golden Bridge, which commissions Californian composers to reflect masterpieces of the English ‘Golden’ Tudor Age and of the European Renaissance.

Suzi has conducted major choral-orchestral works with, amongst others: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Mozart Players; the English Concert and Brandenburg Festival Orchestra. Suzi has conducted annually 2,000 voices in the Royal Albert Hall in a scratch Youth Messiah. Other Venues at which she has conducted include: St John’s Smith Square, Ambika P3, St Martin in the Fields, St James’ Piccadilly, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and (with the Rolling Stones) O2, Glastonbury Festival Main Stage and Hyde Park. Suzi is the official choral conductor for The Rolling Stones and fixed and coached 70 local choirs for 70 cities internationally for their 50th Anniversary Tour.

Suzi has been a trustee of Music in Country Churches, among other music and education charities. She is Past President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and was Acting Music Director of Queens’ College, Cambridge (where she founded the Queens’ Choral Conducting Programme). Amongst many TV appearances, she was a judge on the BBC1 hit show Last Choir Standing, with over seven million viewers. She regularly adjudicates choral competitions and gives workshops and lectures around the world.

In 2007 Suzi was appointed an OBE by the Queen for services to music education.

In 2016, Suzi received an honorary degree from University of Aberdeen. She is Visiting Professor, University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music.

 

For media enquiries please contact Suzi’s agent:

Samantha Everett
email: pa.suzidigby@gmail.com.