Suzi Digby
| Susan Digby, Lady Eatwell OBE | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 1, 1958 Japan |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Spouse(s) |
Henry Digby (1980-2001) Lord Eatwell (m. 2006) |
| Website | http://www.suzidigby.com/ |
Susan Elizabeth "Suzi" Digby, Lady Eatwell OBE (née Watts; born 1 July 1958) is a British choral conductor and music educator.
Suzi Digby OBE was born Japan and lived in Hong Kong, Mexico and the Philippines before settling in London and Cambridge. She is an internationally renowned Choral Conductor and Music Educator. She has trail blazed the revival of singing in UK schools and the community over two and a half decades. Digby founded the influential national arts/education organisation The Voices Foundation (the UK's leading primary music education charity). Digby founded and runs the following organisations: Voce Chamber Choir (one of London's finest young chamber choirs); Vocal Futures (nurturing young [16-22] audiences for classical music); Singing4Success (leadership and 'Accelerated Learning' for corporates) and The London Youth Choir (a pyramid of five choirs, ages 8-22, serving all ethnic communities in London's thirty-three boroughs). February 2016 sees the public launch of her professional vocal consort,ORA (commissioning new choral works as 'reflections' of old masterworks). ORA is London-based with residencies planned in the Far East and South America. ORA's debut albums will be released on the Harmonia Mundi label in 2016.
Digby is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California (Choral Studies). In 2014, she launched her Californian professional vocal consort, The Golden Bridge.
Born in Japan as Susan Elizabeth Watts, she attended Frances Holland School, Baker Street, before reading music at King's College London where she studied piano and singing. She lived in Mexico and the Philippines, and then spent 12 years in Hong Kong where she had a television series as well as radio broadcasting, teaching and performing.
In 1990 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship, which she used to travel and study in Finland, Hungary, Canada and the USA, focusing on methods of choral training and music education. She also trained with Péter Erdei, Head of Choral Studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.
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