| Biography | Oriel Sutherland won an Open Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1963, studying with sopranos Isobel Baillie and Meriel St Clair. In 1970 the Incorporated Society of Musicians invited her to take part in one of their Wigmore Hall recitals for Outstanding Young Artists, the first of several highly successful London recitals. From 1970 to 1973 she held a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Music Fellowship. Oriel decided to leave the musical world in 1978 and pursue other interests. In later life, she dedicated much of her time to her faith. |