"To teach is to feed the student, and to feed yourself. It is a two-way process which has always inspired me. I love enabling students to be able to communicate through their playing. To convey a wide variety of tone colours in performance, is to perhaps transcend what can be said in words. So,as a teacher, I see my most important role as being, to enable the student to have the tools to express themselves in this way."

London
Susan has been a violin professor, and conductor of the String Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music in their Junior Department, since gaining the post as a post-graduate student at RAM. Year after year, she brings an abundance of ideas and enthusiasm to students, energising them with her own love of music and passion for excellence.

National and International
Susan has been employed by the Anglo American Educational services to teach students from the USA, and has taught students from Northern Spain. She has also been invited to teach students at Oxford, Cambridge,York and Birmingham universities.

Community Education Projects
Susan has also worked in her local community at St Mary’s Primary School in Finchley, where she produced a fund-raising CD involving all 500 pupils. The production was a mix of Susan’s arrangements of well-known songs, as well as some of her own material.

"It’s a real blast from the past to hear those great old songs like The Rhythm of Life: fantastic! I also loved the chants Susan wrote for each year group. It somehow gave each of them a sense of their own identity, and a sense of pride.It was inspirational to discover that Susan’s son Jacob Moriarty worked on so many of the arrangements. I bought ten copies for all my friends and family. When’s the next one coming out?"
St Marys School parent

Concert Workshops
Susan has developed her own concert platform designed to inform and empower student and audience alike. When a student has performed their chosen piece, Susan invites feedback from the student themselves as well as the audience, and accompanist. Together, they move forward to enable the student to embrace the concepts, and experiment with new ideas. One student described it thus:

"Performing in Susan’s Concert Workshop has beenthe most enjoyable performance of my life. I felt relaxed, and excited to play. The feedback I received was so interesting. I now feel I want to play this piece
even better, and I think I can!"