Susan Mackenzie - Mezzo Soprano

Susan Mackenzie-Park was born in Scotland, studied singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and then at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she held an Ian Fleming Award and a Sir James Caird Scholarship. Susan’s career has taken her all over the world. Stage credits include Opera North, The Royal Opera and Kent Opera, as well as North America and Europe, including the Banff Festival of the Arts and the Walton Foundation on Ischia. Concerts include Elgar Sea Pictures, Bach St John Passion, Tippett A Child of Our Time, masterclasses with Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge and many world premieres, including work by Alemdar Karamanov, Judith Weir, Nigel Osborne, Bill Sweeney and Edward Harper. She is in demand as an interpreter of Elgar, and was the guest soloist in The Music Makers and Pomp and Circumstance no. 1 at the inaugural concert in the new International Concert Hall in Istanbul. She has recorded Suor Angelica with Pappano for EMI. Broadcasts include Britten Noye’s Fludde for BBC 4 and Classic FM’s ‘Meet the Artist’ series with Malcolm Martineau. Recent concerts included Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody for the Southern Cathedrals Festival.