Based in West Yorkshire Susanna Hewitt offers instrumental lessons to all capabilities while maintaining a busy performance schedule. Available as a session musician when required Susanna also currently teaches Saxophone, Piano and Folk Whistles and plays within a number of professional groups.
You can see Susanna live most weekends playing saxophone as part of The Simon Street Quartet, The Soulutions www.thesoulutions.co.uk and Durham Alumni Big Band who perform all over Yorkshire and the North of England.
Due to progression Susanna is also currently able to offer a limited number of private piano and saxophone lessons to local pupils, all capabilities welcome, especially complete beginners. For more details please email lessons@susannahewitt.co.uk or call 07904 092206
The House of Fraser department store in Huddersfield have been gifted a baby grand electric piano from the music store in town and put a request out for pianists.
I gave them a call and I've been there two days this week now, Tuesday and Saturday, entertaining and providing background music for customers as they eat their lunch in the restaurant or are just passing by.
Its been a pleasure and good fun to play, as well as having the opportunity to advertise myself as a performer and teacher. I've already had some interest and requests from people as well as some people taking my cards. All in all it seems to have been a good opportunity to take and maybe some other gigs and new students will come out of it.
I'm playing again on Tuesday, 11.30am-1.30pm, come along and listen and maybe enjoy some lunch as well.
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Had another great gig with the Big Band last night at The Georgian Theatre in Stockton. Some awesome playing by a number of players especially my old teacher Andy Bennett.
The youth band played really well too, some really good numbers I hadn't heard before. It was lovely to see some of my past students still playing and seeing how far they have come, they're all grown up now too.
I'm really looking forward to our next gig.
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Been a busy few weeks, not just with rehearsals but doing some arrangements as well. Working on songs for The Soulutions, including things like Billy Ocean's 'Love really hurts without you', and for The Simon Street Quartet, working on some harmonic and rhythmic parts for a few numbers, including 'All of me', 'Fly me to the moon' and 'Have you met miss Jones'.
Looking forward to trying these out with the bands and maybe using some of them with my students in lessons.
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Been rehearsing Saxophone with The Simon Street Quartet in Huddersfield, preparing for a wedding in May.
Really enjoying our recently added tune 'Billie's bounce', simple but funky. Might have to get my pupils trying it out in our lessons.
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New piano student starting next Wednesday, they say its a life long ambition so they have finally got round to do it!
Also means I only have two more Wednesday private instrumental lesson slots available now. Wednesday is definitely piano lesson day and is getting busy.
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