Susan Digby (Lady Eatwell) OBE, BMus Hons, Churchill Fellow

Founder and Principal, The Voices Foundation

Suzi Digby Eatwell graduated with honors in musicology from King’s College, London, and studied piano, singing, conducting, and music pedagogy. Born in Japan, she has lived in Mexico, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, where she presented her own TV arts series and was a prolific radio broadcaster, teacher, and performer. In 1990 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and traveled to Finland, Hungary, Canada, and the U.S. to study methods of choral training and music pedagogy as practiced by their leading exponents. This led to her creating The Voices Foundation, the U.K.’s leading music education foundation. She has worked for many years as an advisory teacher in disadvantaged schools U.K.-wide and is now a council member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and trustee of music in Country Churches and several other music and education Trusts. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been appointed president of the Incorporated Society of Musicians for 2012.

Digby has worked internationally with children’s and adult choirs for many years and founded Voce, widely acknowledged as London’s best young chamber choir, in 2003. She has conducted on some of London’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall (for Yehudi Menuhin’s 80th birthday concert), St. John’s Smith Square, St.James’s Piccadilly, and the Royal College of Music. She has conducted the London Mozart Payers and Academy of Ancient Music among other ensembles, and works regularly with members of BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Digby adjudicates choir competitions and lectures/workshops internationally. She founded Artsworks (leadership and team-building through the arts for multinational corporates, including HSBC, BP, Lovells, etc.). She was a judge on the hit BBC1 show ‘Last Choir Standing,’ which attracted 10 million U.K. fans and many more worldwide. She is Acting Director of Music at Queen’s College, Cambridge. She was awarded an OBE by HM the Queen in 2007 in recognition of outstanding services to music education.

This year, Digby founded Vocal Futures, the groundbreaking charitable foundation launched to inspire a new generation of classical music followers. The first major project is Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion at Ambika P3 in London in November with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment.

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