Susan Legg, Head of Voice
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Susan Legg studied piano with Clifford Benson and with Phyllis Sellick at the Royal College of Music. Her singing studies with Margaret Kingsley continued at the National Opera Studio after winning the National Mozart Singing Competition.
Susan has enjoyed operatic engagements with Glyndebourne, Bayreuth and Wexford Festivals, and the Walton Trust, Ischia. Awards include the Richard Tauber Schubert Society Prize and Tillett Trust’s Young Artists Platform. Other prestigious competition successes have included the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Belvedere International singing Competition in Vienna.
Susan made her Wigmore Hall recital debut in 1995 and has given piano and song recitals at the Purcell Room, St. John, Smith’s Square and St. James’s Palace.
With pianist Ann Martin-Davis Susan received international acclaim for a CD of Lutoslawski songs and piano music for the ASV Label. The duo recently commissioned song-cycles by Graham Fitkin, Howard Skempton and Gabriel Jackson which they performed and toured for most of the major UK music and poetry festivals.
Susan has been travelling widely; giving recitals in India, Australia and Borneo as well as touring Handel’s Messiah in Mexico. She is in demand as a workshop leader for short courses and currently enjoys her position as Head of Voice at Chichester University.