Susan Hamilton

Susan Hamilton (soprano) specialises in Baroque and Contemporary music.

She is in demand as a soloist working with many conductors including Philippe Herreweghe, John Butt, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jos van Immerseel, Robert King, Paul McCreesh, Masaaki Suzuki and Ton Koopman.

She has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, A Sei Voci, La Caccia, Cantus Cölln, Collegium Vocale Ghent, Florilegium, Flanders Recorder Quartet, Gabrieli Consort, The Monteverdi Choir, The New London Consort and The Rare Fruits Council. She also performs regularly with, Il Gardellino, Plus Ultra, Mr McFall’s Chamber, the Ricercar Consort and the Dunedin Consort, which she co-founded and is one of the artistic directors and has appeared at major International Festivals in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA including the Edinburgh International Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Les Folles Journées in Nantes and Lisbon, Melbourne, St Magnus, Salzburg and Utrecht. Susan broadcasts regularly on both television and radio and has recorded for Astree-Auvidis, Delphian, Flora, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Linn, Ricercar and Virgin Classics. Her solo recordings include A’e Gowden Lyric a recital of songs by Ronald Stevenson, with the pianist John Cameron and Dallapiccola’s Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado with David Wilde, both for Delphian Records, Haydn’s Scots songs on the Flora label, Consort Songs by Alfonso Ferrabosco with the Ricercar Consort, Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia’s Day with Philippe Herreweghe, the Walsingham Consort Books with La Caccia and for Linn Records she has recorded with the Dunedin Consort under John Butt, Handel’s Messiah with the which won a Classic FM Gramophone Award in 2007 and a MIDEM award in 2008, Bach’s Matthew Passion and most recently Handel’s Acis and Galatea (“soprano Susan Hamilton is a delicious Galatea” – Classic FM Magazine and “Susan Hamilton's light, articulate soprano is preferable to an operatic voice in the role of Galatea” – Gramophone Magazine). Her latest solo CD of Theatre Songs from the Restoration by John Eccles and his contemporaries with the Dunedin Players is soon to be released as is a recording Haydn and Geminiani Scots Song arrangements with the Rare Fruits Council.