Susan studied singing and piano as joint first studies at the Royal College of Music and National Opera Studio.

Since winning the National Mozart Singing Competition, Susan’s career has taken her to major venues worldwide.  She has given vocal and piano recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St. John, Smith’s Square, has performed at Glyndebourne, Bayreuth, Wexford and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Walton Trust, Ischia and toured Handel’s Messiah in Mexico.

Susan has broadcast for BBC Radio 3, Norwegian Radio and has freelanced with the BBC Singers. In 2019 she featured on ITV’s Endeavour as the tragic opera diva in Matthew Slater’s TV opera La Sposa del Demonio.

Engagements include the world premiere of Nicholas Michael Smith’s Love, Friendship & Longing in Cadogan Hall, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mozart’s Requiem in Cadogan Hall and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Dorchester Abbey. She performed Elgar’s Sea Pictures with conductor Brian Wright and Maidstone Symphony Orchestra in 2024.

During the first Lockdown Susan wrote the song “Hold on Tight” which she performed and recorded with Guy Fletcher from Dire Straits, raising money for NHS Charities Together.

For cinema and TV, Susan has collaborated with composer Stephen Baysted on scores for director Phil Grabsky’s feature films: The Impressionists and the man who made them Renoir: Revered and Reviled; I, Claude Monet and The Young Picasso. Susan was solo vocalist and pianist on video games soundtracks for Project Cars; Project Cars 2 and 3, Runescape and Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed. She has sung on films including Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Mulan, Gladiator II and The Dog Stars.

Susan co-wrote the scores with Stephen Baysted for the films My National Gallery (2024) and Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874 (2025).