Suzi Digby

January 10, 2024
Conductor

Quick Facts

Suzi Digby
Full Name Suzi Digby
Occupation Conductor
Date Of Birth Jul 1, 1958(1958-07-01)
Age 66
Birthplace Japan
Country United Kingdom
Horoscope Cancer

Suzi Digby Biography

Name Suzi Digby
Birthday Jul 1
Birth Year 1958
Place Of Birth Japan
Birth Country United Kingdom
Birth Sign Cancer
Parents Peter Watts
Children(s) Edward St. Vincent Kenelm Digby, Alexandra Jane Kira Digby

Suzi Digby is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on July 1, 1958 in Japan, United Kingdom. The venues she has conducted includes The Royal Albert Hall; St John’s Smith Square; the Gstaad Festival; Ambika P3, London; St Martin in the Fields as well as St James’s Piccadilly King’s College Chapel, Cambridge as well as (with The Rolling Stones) The O2; Glastonbury Festival and Hyde Park. Suzi Digby serves as the official conductor of choral music of The Rolling Stones as well as having arranged sixty local choirs across sixty cities across the globe to conduct their 50th anniversary Tour. She is also the guest conductor for St Stephen’s Oratorio Choir, Budapest. She has served as an adjudicator at an event called the Coleraine Music Festival in Northern Ireland and Sainsbury’s Chorus of the Year.

In 1993, she launched an organization that promotes music education across the nation, The Voices Foundation whose methodology is based on the work developed by Hungarian musician Zoltan Koldaly. In the following year Yehudi Menuhin named her the lead the UK MUS-E branch of the project. This choir, the Voices Foundation Children’s Choir, is a multi-ethnic ensemble of children from all over the UK and Europe, has performed at state occasions , including those of the VE Day Head of State ceremony as well as the inaugural National Holocaust Memorial Day and has performed in Europe.

In 2000 Digby was invited to become a council member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust where she serves as Chairman of the Arts category. That same year she was shortlisted for a Creative Britain Award. She also founded and directed the award-winning London-based adult chamber choir, Coro.

In 2003 she founded Voce. She was founding musical director of the infant programme of the Finchley Children’s Music Group and co-founded Music Box, the Bristol-based children’s opera group.

In 1990, she received the Winston Churchill Fellowship, which allowed her to study and travel to Finland, Hungary, Canada and the USA and focused on methods of choral education in addition to music-related education. She also studied under Peter Erdei, Head of Choral Studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

Suzi Digby Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Conductor
House Living in own house.

Suzi Digby is one of the richest Conductor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Suzi Digby 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Susan Elizabeth “Suzi” Digby Lady Eatwell OBE (nee Watts; born 1 July 1958) is a British conductor of choral groups and an music teacher.

Susan Watts married in 1980 The Hon. Henry Noel Kenelm Digby, the child of Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby. There are two children born of her previous marriage, Edward as well as Alexandra. The couple divorced in 2001.

From 1996 to 1998, Digby was musical director of Rosslyn Hill Chapel Choir, and from 1998 to 2000 director of the Middlesex Bach Choir. In 1998 she launched ‘Singing Schools’, a 5-year programme in South Africa involving 70 schools in Soweto and Johannesburg. More than two hundred African children’s songs have been collected and integrated into the UK programme.

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As a conductor, Digby’s 2011 debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Vocal Futures’ St Matthew Passion) was met with outstanding critical acclaim: ‘Choral wizard’, ‘The mother of all music’, The Telegraph; ‘Sensitive and accomplished conductor’, Musical America; ‘A serious force for good within Britain’s music education system’, New Statesman. Digby annually conducts 2,000 voices in the Royal Albert Hall in a scratch Youth Messiah. In 2015 this was awarded Best Classical Music Education Initiative Nationwide by popular vote from UK radio station Classic FM.

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Suzi Ranked on the list of most popular Conductor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Suzi Digby celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.

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; 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 saw 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.

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