Suzi Digby, Baroness Eatwell, (née: Susan Watts; born 1 July 1958) OBE is a British conductor, musician and teacher.
Susan Elizabeth Digby read 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...
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Suzi Digby, Baroness Eatwell, (née: Susan Watts; born 1 July 1958) OBE is a British conductor, musician and teacher.
Susan Elizabeth Digby read 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.
Inspired by her Fellowship travels, in 1993 she founded a national music education charity The Voices Foundation whose methodology is based on that of Hungarian music educator Zoltán Kodály. The same year, Yehudi Menuhin appointed her to spearhead the UK branch of his MUS-E project. The Voices Foundation Children's Choir, a...
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