SUE WINDOS HARRIS
as a teenager
Studied flute with flautist and 18th century music specialist Helen Crown and piano with Ivy Beech..
Played with Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra, Cambridge Holiday Orchestra and European Youth Orchestra.
at college
Flautist for Nottingham Music Theatre's arrangement of The Magic Flute, touring children's libraries.
Played in productions of Iolanthe and West Side Story.
first jobs
Actor and singer with Chameleon Theatre Company.
Worked in wardrobe at Nottingham Playhouse, in props at Nottingham Theatre Royal, in the wardrobe department at BBC Television Centre and as Stage Manager for East Midlands Music Theatre.
best job ever
Worked as assistant to musical storyteller Ann Rachlin in her Fun With Music classes in London, assisted her at her live concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra and in her role as founder head of The Beethoven Fund For Deaf Children
LATER ON
Studied at Manchester University, taught drama classes, workshops and summer schools for all ages, wrote a one act play and saw it performed, formed a theatre company and directed Churchill's Softcops and Marlowe's Dr Faustus and ran drama workshops for the Diocese of Chelmsford.
AND THEN
Taught music in Essex for 25 years, was a member of St Mary's renowned choir in Maldon, was a member of the popular Blackwater Recorder Consort, and acted in a range of classical plays.
interests
Music (particularly early music), books, writing, theatre, history, languages, crafts, baking, walking.
classical-ebooks
I've always been passionate about introducing children and young people to classical music and I've always written so it's wonderful to be able to put these together in ebooks with audio/video links to the music.