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CodeDS/UK/5592
NameAndersson; Susanna (7 December 1977); Swedish soprano singer
Dates7 December 1977
GenderFemale (cisgender)
Place of Birth/OriginÖstersund, Sweden (born)
BiographySusanna Andersson is a Swedish soprano and the winner of the 2003 Guildhall School of Music and Drama's Gold Medal Competition. Her debut performance was in 2005 and she played Zerlina in the Grange Park Opera’s staging of Don Giovanni.

She studied at the Ljungskile College Institute before moving to London where she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2004 Susanna was chosen as the soloist for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where she performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Among the pieces she performed was “Prosperine” by Joseph Martin Kraus.

In 2006 and 2007 Andersson was the only singer chosen for the ECHO Rising Stars series at the Barbican Theatre, and she gave recitals with her pianist Eugene Asti in London, New York City, Athens, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Brussels, Stockholm, Cologne and Vienna.

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