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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard will be closed for a private event.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard will be closed for a private event.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

Susan Tomes

Susan Tomes has won awards for her playing, for her recordings and for her writing. As a founder member of Domus, travelling in the 1980s with its own portable concert hall, she helped to pioneer a more inclusive approach to performing chamber music. As the pianist of the Florestan Trio she toured internationally for seventeen years and won a Royal Philharmonic Society award. In parallel with these activities she has been the pianist of the Gaudier Ensemble for over thirty years. She has made over fifty CDs, several of which have won Gramophone Awards. In 2013 she won the Cobbett Medal for her contribution to chamber music.

Susan is also the author of eight books about her experience as a performer and her deep engagement with music. Her books have been widely acclaimed and she is a two-time winner of a Presto Music ‘Book of the Year’ award. Her most recent book, Nocturnes and the Fascination of Night Music, was published in 2026 and welcomed with outstanding reviews. This autumn her solo album of music by some of the historical women featured in her 2024 book Women and the Piano will be released on Hyperion Records.