Susie Allan, one of today’s most perceptive collaborative pianists, has performed with international vocal soloists including Emma Bell, Susan Gritton, Rowan Pierce, and Mark Padmore. She has accompanied masterclasses by Sir Thomas Allen, Elly Ameling and Roger Vignoles at the Britten-Pears School. In demand as a coach and teacher, she has held posts at the Royal College of Music and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and adjudicated for the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s English Song Prize. She is a visiting piano teacher and coach at Radley College, Abingdon.
As an opera collaborator, Susie has directed Così fan tutte, Rigoletto, La traviata from the keyboard, for Opera à la Carte; played numerous opera galas, and repetiteured for The Classical Opera Company. She is delighted to be working with Longborough Festival Opera for the first time.
In a collaboration with baritone Roderick Williams spanning over twenty years they perform across the UK and internationally. In 2022 for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth the duo performed at The Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s, Bath Mozart Fest and Malvern Concert Club. The disc of this programme has just been released to high praise. Susie's next project for SOMM Recordings of Stanford’s Children’s Songs in collaboration with mezzo Kitty Whately and baritone Gareth Brynmor John (released 2022) has also won high praise. She is a regular guest of the UK’s most prestigious venues and concert societies appearing at the Wigmore Hall, Champs Hill, Globe Theatre, and festivals including the Buxton, Endellion, Oxford Lieder and Three Choirs. She has recorded for BBC Radio 3 and for television, and performed in Europe and the US.