VAUGHAN, Susie

Susie Vaughan is a musician and composer based in Cheltenham. Her work focuses on contemporary classical music, particularly for voices and period instruments. Vaughan expresses a desire to "re-enchant the past," aiming to transport listeners to a "splintered sound world" that incorporates historical instruments, styles, idioms, harmonic language, and ornamentation. Vaughan was also a winner of the 2022 Ruzickova Composition Competition.

Susie is particularly interested in setting love poetry through the ages (from Sappho to Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath) and devotional text - she was the first woman in 550 years to compose for the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford – a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis to celebrate 20 Years of Women being at the College in the Year 2000.