Susan Bradshaw (Monmouth, 8 September 1931 – London, 30 January 2005) was a British pianist, teacher, writer, and composer.

Bradshaw attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1949, studying piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Howard Ferguson and Mátyás Seiber.

There she met Cornelius Cardew, a fellow student, with whom she performed in Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.

[2] Bradshaw attended Darmstadt three times, 1956-1958 and in the last year performed there Richard Rodney Bennett's Music for Two Pianos with the composer.

Bradshaw was one of the two musicians (the other being Hans Keller) involved in the famous 'Piotr Zak' hoax in 1961.