"RED" BOOK SYMPHONY: Susannah Self

Composer Susie Self studied at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University. She won scholarships from the Royal Society of Arts, The Banff Centre, Canada, and most recently a STEAM scholarship from Birmingham City University to read for a PhD in composition, from where she has now graduated. In 2016 she conducted her opera The Butt based on Will Self’s novel at the Musiktheatertage Festival in Vienna. The British Ambassador invited her and Will to a Q & A.

Susannah conducts The Staithe Singers and the Universal Choir, Norfolk. Past opera productions she has conducted include: The Turn of The Screw, Albert Herring, Suor Angelica, Cosí fan tutte, Carmen, Gianni Schicchi and The Magic Flute. Her conducting teacher is David Parry.

The facsimile of Jung’s cosmos lies ceremoniously open in my studio so that visitors may synchronistically open

a new page. Jung's Universal work presents such densely layered metaphors…