Oswell, Susan

Susan Oswell was born 1955 in England. She studied dance, drama and music at the Arts Educational Schools of Tring and London and was a solo dancer in several ballet companies, e.g. in Tehran, Paris and Bonn, as well as a protagonist along with Rosamund Gilmore choreographer of the internationally renowned LAOKOON DANCE GROUP from Germany. In 1984 she was chosen by the critics as the best actress of the year. She wrote the libretto for Franz Hummel's opera "Bluebeard" and studied composition with him. For the 2009 European Culture Capital Linz, Austria she staged the opera "Fouché".

Oswell's chamber music pieces have been performed in recent years in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, Hungary and the United States by famous soloists such as Elena Denisova, Alexander Suleiman, Irma Issakadze, Gustav Rivinius and Carmen Piazzini.
Her symphonic poem "Eclipse" for piano and orchestra was played outdoors simultaneously with the natural event on 11 August 1999 by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexei Kornienko.

Her full-length song cycle "100 water", 42 poems by Sabine Bergk, was performed for the first time by the mezzo-soprano Jasmin Etezadzade and pianist Matthias Veit in 2011 in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Oswell's chamber opera "Zelda" with a libretto by Jutta Georg was premiered in 2014 at the Theater an der Rott, Eggenfelden, Germany with the "Salzburg Orchestra Soloists" conducted by Mary Fitzgerald and directed by Rosamund Gilmore.
On October 16, 2015 her "Symphony chorégraphique - The Stranger" based on Albert Camus premiered at a dance production in Trier Theater of Germany. (Choreography and director: Rosamund Gilmore, Conducted: Wouter Padberg.)