Susan Blake - Cello
Susan Blake (cello)Susan Blake is Lecturer in Cello and Chamber Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. After winning the ABC's Instrumental and Vocal Competition in 1977, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and an International Study Grant from the Australia Council, enabling her to pursue post graduate studies with Heinrich Schiff in Austria and in Basle Switzerland.
Since then she has made recordings for ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, Sounds Australia and 2MBSFM, and has performed in many countries, including tours as soloist with chamber orchestras in Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and South America - as well as Symphony Orchestras throughout Australia.
As a founding member of "Ensemble of the Classic Era", she has toured extensively for Musica Viva Australia and performed at all the major music festivals. The Ensembles 3rd CD is to be released in November on the ABC Classics Antipodes label and contains music of Haydn.
The instrument on which she plays is made by Giovanni Grancino in Milan in 1701.