| Susan Farrow trained initially as an organist, harpsichordist and pianist, studying with organists Nicolas Danby (Royal College of Music), Gillian Weir and Nicholas Kynaston and pianists Sheila Mossman and Wilfrid Parry. Turning her attention to conducting, she studied with Sir Charles Groves, Johannes Geffert in Germany and, more recently, with Vernon Handley.In addition to a busy schedule of conducting engagements, Susan holds the post of Music Director to a number of choruses and orchestras, including the Dulwich Choral Society, the Southgate Festival Chorus, The Alleyn Chorale, St. Monica's Singers, the Janus Ensemble (an instrumental and vocal ensemble specialising in the performance of Bach and Handel), the chamber choir Concordia, the North London Sinfonia, the Vallé Theatre Company and Mosaic (an eight-voice professional vocal ensemble).Susan's extensive repertoire includes choral and orchestral music from all periods. She has an affinity with early music and has given numerous performances of many of the major choral and orchestral works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.During the last several years her repertoire has included many large-scale choral-orchestral works and in 1995 she conducted the World Première of David Snell's Requiem at St. John's, Smith Square, London.Susan has appeared in most of the major British concert venues, and in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic and the United States.She is a regular contributor to radio and television. Her appearances have ranged from performances of Mozart and Bruckner for Channel 4 to a visit to the John Dunn Show to answer listeners' questions about the orchestra.Last year saw a very successful concert tour with Dulwich Choral Society to Paris and included a Mass in Notre Dame Cathedral as well as concerts at Meaux and Chartres Cathedrals. The year 2001 concert tour with DCS to Italy included concerts in Venice, Lavis and a Mass in the Basilica of San Marco.Susan has just completed her third season with the English National Ballet, conducting works by Tchaikovsky, Minkas and, unusually for the world of ballet, J.S. Bach. |
