Education
Bradshaw studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and then with Boulez in Paris.
Bradshaw studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and then with Boulez in Paris.
She was mainly associated with contemporary music, and especially with the work of Pierre Boulez, several of whose writings she translated. As a critic and musicologist she contributed to a number of magazines and journals over several decades. The titles included Contact, Music & Musicians, Tempo and The Musical Times.
Susan Bradshaw was one of the two musicians (the other being Hans Keller) involved in the famous "Piotr Zak" hoax in 1961.
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 Russian Psychological Society Composition Prize.