Suzanne McGrath

Suzanne has recently completed a BMus (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh with a First in performance. She takes a lively part in the wealth of musical activity available in Edinburgh. She has most recently played the Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen) for Edinburgh Studio Opera (ESO) and in November sang the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro) and Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) in ESO Opera Scenes. Highlights of solo performances in concert have been Bach’s Mass in B Minor for the Dunedin Consort with conductor John Butt, Vivaldi Gloria and Bach Magnificat for the Cumbernauld Choir and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Benjamin Britten’s In The World of The Spirit and Faure's Requiem with orchestras of Edinburgh University. She also performed as soloist in Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. In addition, she has performed in numerous recitals around Edinburgh and Manchester, including as a Soloist with orchestra at The Bridgewater Hall. Future performances include Pamina (The Magic Flute), recitals of the Berg Sieben Frühe Lieder and performances asPoppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) for ESO's Opera Sins in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Suzanne won the Tovey Memorial Prize for performance in 2010 and the Michael Shea Bursary to support her further post graduate study, she also won the Florence Veitch Ibler Prize as runner-up in the Margaret Fletcher Award in March. Her vocal studies have been generously supported by the Friends of St. Cecilia’s and Clutterbuck Scholarships.

During Suzanne’s third year of university she chose to study abroad on the Erasmus exchange programme and spent the year studying musicology at Milano Statale in Italy. This fantastic experience, from which she gained fluency in Italian, also enabled her to study voice with Margaret Hayward, of the Milanese Conservatoire as well as vocal coach at La Scala. Whilst in Italy she worked with Colin Baldy of Hand Made Opera, for whom she performed the role of Serpetta (La Finta Giardiniera) in Scheggino, Italy with conductor Matthew Halls. She also received coaching from Nicholas Cleobury and Nicoletta Conti.

In master classes Suzanne has been coached by Arlene Rolph, Susan McCulloch, Robin Bowman, Elaine Kidd and Adrian Thompson. She currently studies voice with Patricia MacMahon and Eric Ibler, and will be auditioning for music colleges in the UK and on the continent.

Before deciding to study music, Suzanne was an accomplished dancer, accepted to study the performance degree course at LABAN, London.

Please see the 'Résumé' page of this site for more details of Suzanne's past and forthcoming performances.