Sue Lowe (cello)
Sue comes originally from Richmond in Yorkshire. She studied at the RCM, when aged 16, with Anna Shuttleworth. She became a free lance player including working with the London Mozart Players and the Halle. She deputised at the Royal College of Music for some years. She has always been interested in teaching and basing herself back in Yorkshire taught at Huddersfield School of Music (now incorporated in the University), Hull University and has been teaching in the department at York since 1998. Sue also taught for many years at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. Sue is a highly sought after teacher and currently divides her time between Eton College where she teaches the Eton boys and London conservatoire students, and her teaching practice in York.
Since the 1980s Sue has been Artistic Director of an International Cello School that meets twice a year bringing together some of the best cellists in Europe – Johannes Goritzki, Alexander Baillie, Steve Doane, Louise Hopkins, Pierre Doumenge and others. Her courses featured in The Strad magazine and have increasingly drawn students from across the world. She argues that there is a need for serious high level students to meet together in an informal environment in order to absorb influences away from regular teaching and for students to see ‘where they are’. She has organized two highly acclaimed ‘Cello Weekends’ in the university, most recently in February 2010 with Alexander Baillie, Louise Hopkins and many other artists. Sue’s students often study at post-graduate conservatoire level and can be found in orchestras and chamber groups around the country and many have gone on to be excellent teachers themselves.