Susan Bradshaw

Bradshaw attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1949, studying piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Howard Ferguson and Mátyás Seiber. There she met Cornelius Cardew, a fellow student, with whom she performed in Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/17/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1|title = Obituary: Susan Bradshaw| newspaper=The Guardian |date = 17 February 2005 | last1=Wood | first1=Hugh }}

Bradshaw attended Darmstadt three times, 1956-1958 and in the last year performed there Richard Rodney Bennett's Music for Two Pianos with the composer. A recording survives of the performance.{{Cite web|url=https://internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/imd/archiv/|title = Archiv}} Around the same period she studied with Pierre Boulez in Paris.

Bradshaw was one of the two musicians (the other being Hans Keller) involved in the famous 'Piotr Zak' hoax in 1961.

After her death, The Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund was established by the Royal Philharmonic Society with donations from friends and family, led by composer Brian Elias. The purpose of the fund is to support composers (of any age) and young musicians wishing to perform works by living composers. At present the fund is used to support a commission for one of the winners of the RPS Composition Prize.

Bradshaw's papers are housed at the British Library.{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/music/2019/07/the-susan-bradshaw-papers-archive-of-an-insightful-communicator-.html|title = The Susan Bradshaw Papers: Archive of an Insightful Communicator - Music blog}}

• Mabillon Trio Avant-Garde. Music by Boulez and others. Delta, 1962
• "Dorothy Dorow - A Short Recital of English Songs", Dorothy Dorow, Soprano, Susan Bradshaw, piano. Featuring songs by Bliss, Holst, Britten, Walter Leigh, Bax, recorded June 1963, LP: Jupiter Recordings, JEP OC33.
• English choral works, John Alldis Choir, conducted by John Alldis, with Richard Rodney Bennett, piano LP: Argo ZRG 5426, 1965
• Anthony Payne, Paean for solo piano, LP: BBC Enterprises, 1977, CD: NMC D159.
• Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals, Vesuvius Ensemble, Poulenc, Babar the Elephant, Susan Bradshaw, solo piano, EMI BRNA 502 1977
• Gustav Holst, The Planets, for two pianos, Richard Rodney Bennett, Susan Bradshaw, LP: Delos DEL-25442 (1981), CD: FACET 8002 (1987)
• Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, with Jane Manning, Vesuvius Ensemble.

• "Jean Barraqué", The Listener, 16 May 1969, p. 696 (About Barraqué's Sonate.)
• "The Music of Elisabeth Lutyens", The Musical Times, Vol. 112, No. 1541 (Jul., 1971), pp. 653+655-656
• "The Twentieth Century", in Keyboard Music, ed. Denis Matthews, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972, {{ISBN|0140212507}}
• "New Music - Shostakovich's 15th Symphony - Anthony Payne and his ‘Paean’", Tempo 100 (Spring 1972), pp. 36-45
• "Whatever Happened to Chamber Music?", Tempo 123 (December 1977), pp. 7–9, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200029545 Whatever Happened to Chamber Music?]
• "Symphony No.2/Metamorphoses—The Compositional Background" [on Roberto Gerhard], Tempo 139 (December 1981), pp. 28–32 DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200032344 Symphony No.2/Metamorphoses—The Compositional Background]
• "Cornelius Cardew (1936 – 1981)", Tempo 140 (March 1982), p. 22
• "The Music of Edison Denisov", Tempo 151 (December 1984), 2-9. doi:10.1017/S0040298200058940
• "The instrumental and vocal music", in Pierre Boulez - A Symposium, ed. William Glock, London: Eulenberg, 1986, pp. 127–230, {{ISBN|0 903873 12 5}}
• "All Fingers and Thumbs. Can We 'Interpret' Contemporary Music, or Do We Just Perform It?", The Musical Times, Vol. 135, No. 1811 (Jan., 1994), pp. 20–24
• "A Performer's Responsibility", in Composition - performance - reception: studies in the creative process in music, edited by Wyndham Thomas, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998, pp. 53–65, {{ISBN|1 85928 325 X}}
• "Piano music: recital repertoire and chamber music", in Amanda Bayley (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2001, pp. 104–117, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521660105.009 Piano music: recital repertoire and chamber music]
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Bradshaw |first=Susan |authorlink=Susan Bradshaw |others=Revised by Bayan Northcott |editor-first1=Bayan |editor-last1=Northcott |year=2010 |orig-year=2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |title=Payne, Anthony |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21136 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000021136 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Susan |authorlink1=Susan Bradshaw |last2=Bennett |first2=Richard Rodney |authorlink2=Richard Rodney Bennett |date=1972 |title=Anthony Payne's String Quartet |journal=Tempo |publisher=Cambridge University Press |issue=100 |pages=40–44 |jstor=942527 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Bradshaw |first=Susan |authorlink=Susan Bradshaw |date=March 1979 |title=Anthony Payne's String Quartet |journal=Tempo |publisher=Cambridge University Press |issue=128 |pages=33 |jstor=946067 }}

• Boulez, Pierre. 1971. Boulez on Music Today, translated by Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett. London: Faber. {{ISBN|0-571-09420-1}}. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|0-674-08006-8}}.
• Jameux, Dominique. 1991. Pierre Boulez, translated by Susan Bradshaw. London: Faber. {{ISBN|0-571-13744-X}}. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|0-674-66740-9}}.

• Hans Keller, Functional Analysis: The Unity of Contrasting Themes. Complete Edition of the Analytical Scores, ed. Gerold W. Gruber, Susan Bradshaw and Michael Meixner (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101210100701/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-edison-denisov-1354489.html Obituary of Edison Denisov written by Susan Bradshaw]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/17/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 Susan Bradshaw's obituary in The Guardian]
• [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/susan-bradshaw-489057.html Susan Bradshaw's obituary in The Independent]
• [http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=composers/bradshaw/about.html "About Susan Bradshaw"], Gerard McBurney (Royal Philharmonic Society website)
• [http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=composers/bradshaw The Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund]

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