Suzi Digby Eatwell - Founder

Susan Digby Eatwell is the founder and principal of The Voices Foundation, a leading national music education charity that works in inner city and rural infant and primary schools across England and Wales. Over a quarter of a million children have so far benefited from the scheme. In 1998 she launched ‘Singing Schools’, a South African programme involving seventy schools in Soweto and Johannesburg.

Suzi read music at King’s College, University of London, and studied piano and singing. She has lived in Mexico, the Philippines and Hong Kong, where she presented her own TV arts series and was a prolific radio broadcaster, teacher and performer. In 1990 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship, which enabled her to travel to Finland, Hungary, Canada and the USA to study methods of choral training and music education as practised by their leading exponents.

Suzi has worked internationally with children’s and adult choirs for many years and founded Voce in 2003. Her conducting work has seen her perform in some of London’s most prestigious concert venues including the Royal Albert Hall (for Yehudi Menuhin’s 80th birthday concert), St John’s Smith Square, St James’s Piccadilly and the Royal College of Music.

Today, Suzi is in increasing demand for corporate team building workshops. Working with Arts.works, her clients include Marks & Spencer, Firmenich, Swedbank, Allen & Overy and BP. She also works regularly with radio and television in the UK, giving interviews for BBC Radio, Classic FM and presenting for BBC Wales TV (including The Cardiff Singer of the World competition). She frequently adjudicates at choral festivals and competitions and recently judged the BBC primetime series, Last Choir Standing.

Suzi Digby is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was awarded the OBE in 2007 for services to music education.

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