London based musician Susan Clark is an experienced performer, teacher, adjudicator and ABRSM examiner.
Susan Clark started playing the piano at the age of four and attended the Trinity College of Music Junior Department for ten years, studying piano, flute, violin and musicianship. She continued her studies at Cambridge University and while there performed extensively both as a soloist and accompanist. After graduating from Cambridge, Susan successfully completed a Postgraduate Diploma in performance at the Royal College of Music. Her teachers have included Rose Eley, Nigel Clayton, John Blakely and Vanessa Latarche.
She has appeared as a soloist or accompanist at most of the major London concert venues, including the South Bank, St. John’s, Smith Square, Southwark Cathedral, St. Martin in the Fields, Blackheath Halls and the picture gallery at Royal Holloway. She has also played at the Edinburgh and the Aldeburgh Fringe Festivals and various music clubs in the south east and has performed at the Martinu Hall in Prague. In 2003 she performed a Mozart piano concerto with Trinity Orchestra, Harrow and in 2009 appeared with the Lincolnshire Symphony Orchestra playing Chopin's first piano concerto.
Susan has played for masterclasses throughout the country and has accompanied courses at Canford Summer School, Ripon Operatic Summer School and Stratford Flute Festival. She has had three articles about teaching techniques published in the Music Teacher magazine and recently published the book 'Speedy Music Theory to help students prepare to take the ABRSM grade 5 exam..
She has taught at Harrow School, Eagle House School, Wellington College and Latymer Saturday Music Centre. Susan currently holds posts as a visiting teacher of piano at Merchant Taylor’s School, Latymer Upper School and the Royal Masonic School. She examines for ABRSM both in the UK and internationally, is an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals, and a member of the Royal Society of Musicians.
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