Sue Waters GRSM LRAM ARCM

Susan Waters enjoys a busy and varied teaching programme, combining her work as a professor of voice and vocal coach at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, with teaching at Cambridge University, and a private studio of advanced student and professional singers. She is a tutor on the Eton Choral Courses, and throughout her teaching career has always maintained an interest in the developing voice. She was Head of Singing at Uppingham School from 1993-2005, and from 1995 for ten years she taught the choristers at Kings College, Cambridge. Many of her former Choral-Scholar students from many of the colleges there and at Oxford University, have gone on to win major prizes, and achieve success in all branches of the classical singing profession.

Susan is an Honours Graduate in piano from the Royal Academy of Music; while a student she performed several Mozart piano concertos, and was already much in demand as an accompanist for auditions, prizes and recitals. She was then awarded the prestigious BP Scholarship to study Opera at Guildhall School of Music. & Drama. Within two years, she was offered  singing engagements with Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera, English Bach Festival (Handel TESEO), Aldeburgh Festival (FIORDILIGI in Cosi fan Tutte, conducted by Murray Perahia),and undertook and a wide-ranging solo concert and oratorio career for several years. She sang at all the major London venues, including Stravinsky LES NOCES at the Barbican, Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, as well as Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Mahler 2nd Symphony, Verdi Requiem, Peer Gynt with Kurt Masur. She was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Britten War Requiem at Snape Maltings. Susan also works regularly in recital as an accompanist, most recently in the Mediterranean and France and London, and she regularly leads Choral Workshops, as well as being much in demand as a coach and vocal consultant.