Susana Gómez Vázquez

CURRICULUM VITAE Susana Gómez Vázquez was born in Alcalá de Henares (Spain) in 1995. She is currently a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music studying piano under Hamish Milne and composition under Gary Carpenter. Until the year 2013, she studied with Patsy Toh at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the Purcell school, composition under Simon Spears at the Purcell School and singing under Tom Marandola, and was awarded with scholarships in both institutions. Susana won first prizes in different competitions including the International Piano Competition "Ciutat Carlet", the Royal Academy of Music Iris Dyer Piano Competition, the Madrid junior and senior Intercentros Hazen Piano Competitions and the Chamber Music Hazen Competition and she was awarded the Senior Piano Prize at the Purcell School of Music. Since 2004, she has been performing regularly in different concert rooms from Spain, England ,Italy and Germany such as the National Auditorium of Music of Madrid, Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Steinway Hall, St George’s Bristol, Wolfson College in Oxford, Purcell Room in Southbank, Duke’s Hall, Corral de Comedias and Aula de Música of the University of Alcalá de Henares, Ateneo of Madrid, Ateneo de Miranda del Ebro, Aula Fundación Caja Vital in Vitoria, Hamburg Hochschule fur Musik und Theater and Fazioli Concert Room, within many others. Susana has received private lessons and master classes from professors such as Fou Ts’ong, Cristina Ortiz, Tatiana Sarkissova, Julian Martin, Martino Tirimo, Yong-Hi Moon, Kenneth Weiss, Dimitri Alexiev , Mikhail Petukhov, Stephen Montague, Kathryn Stott and Pascal Devoyon. Always intrepid to discover new music, Susana has been lucky to work in their pieces with composers such as Antonio Plaza, Stephen Montague, Oliver Knussen and Enrique Téllez. She recently took part in an integral of the John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes at Purcell Room in Southbank, performed her own trio composition in Wigmore Hall, premiered ‘Blumen’ by Antonio Plaza in Aula de Música de Alcalá de Henares and formed part of numerous contemporary ensembles such as the Manson ensemble. In the area of composition, Susana’s pieces have been performed at the Wigmore hall, Royal Academy of Music, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Purcell school and other places all around England by professional musicians and orchestras such as the Milton Keynes orchestra and the Aurora orchestra. She won the first prize in the North London Festival of Music and Drama Senior Composition Competition and was Highly Commended in BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers Competition (junior category). Recently she was awarded the first prize in Purcell School composition competition and her orchestral work was performed in Queen Elisabeth Hall.