Susie Allan
Susie Allan studied as a scholar at Worcester College, Oxford,
and specialised in accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama. Prizes include Accompanist of the Year (1993), and the
Gerald Moore Award (1994). She also received a Special Mention in
the 1997 Wigmore International Song Competition and, in 1999, she
was awarded a scholarship from the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial
Fund.
Susie is best known for her work as a vocal accompanist and has
partnered established singers such as William Dazeley, Susan
Gritton, Thomas Randle, Nathan Berg, Gwynne Hughes-Jones, Roderick
Williams, Garry Magee and Stefan Loges. At the Wigmore Hall she has
played for Catrin Wyn-Davies (broadcast by BBC Wales), Roderick
Williams and William Purefoy. Abroad, she has given recitals at the
Theatre du Chatelet (Nathan Berg) and at the Aix-en-Provence
Festival (Die Schone Mullerin with William Dazeley). In Britain she
has performed at most of the major recital venues and many
festivals including the Three Choirs, Covent Garden, Harrogate,
Spitalfields, Aldeburgh,and Mananan. She performs frequently in
Scotland where she opened the first Highlands and Islands Festival
in Inverness with a recital of Burns songs with soprano Janis
Kelly.
Susie appears regularly on BBC Radio Three, especially the
Voices programme. She has broadcast with Ruth Peel (Brahms), Turid
Moberg (settings of Heine), Emma Bell (an all-English programme)
and Suzannah Clarke. For television she accompanied Christopher
Maltman and Claron McFaddon in Schubert Shorts (Channel 4, Schubert
Anniversary).
Recent engagements include a recital at the Royal Opera House
with mezzo-soprano Tove Dahlberg, a recital with the violinist
Jethro Marsh at St. Johns Smith Square, and a tour of Cosi fan
tutte for which she was the musical director.
Susie also teaches Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music
in London.