[1] A pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow, she was known as "The Lass With The Delicate Air" (taken from the title of one of the most popular songs in her repertoire).
She was principal soprano in the bicentennial St Matthew Passion with Keith Falkner and Margaret Balfour for the Bach Cantata Club under Charles Kennedy Scott in November 1929.
[2] On 5 October 1938 she was one of the original 16 singers – lightest of the four soprano voices – in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.
(The solo line set for her was ‘I am never merry when I hear sweet music.’) She created the soprano part in Vaughan Williams's Thanksgiving for Victory in 1945, and the following year she took part in the opening programmes for the BBC Third Programme in a broadcast of Milton's masque Comus with Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Heddle Nash and Dylan Thomas.
[3] When Sir Thomas Beecham made his second recording of Handel's Messiah (HMV ALP 1077-80), Suddaby was the soprano soloist.