She was a founding member and performed as the principal trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Susan Addison was born in 1955 in Louth, Lincolnshire and attended Monksdyke High School.
[1][2] She has said she was fifteen when she started learning the trombone, and only chose that instrument as that was the only one available to play at her school.
[4][5] After studying the trombone at the Royal College of Music London, Addison joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where she remained for four and a half years.
[6][7] She was a founding member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and performed with them as their principal trombone player.