Born in Japan as Susan Elizabeth Watts, she attended Francis Holland School, Baker Street, before studying music, including piano and singing, at King's College London.
She lived in Mexico and the Philippines, and then spent 12 years in Hong Kong where she had a television series as well as radio broadcasting, teaching and performing.
[1] In 1990 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship, which she used to travel and study in Finland, Hungary, Canada and the USA, focusing on methods of choral training and music education.
[1] She also trained with Péter Erdei, Head of Choral Studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
In November 2011, Vocal Futures staged a performance of the St Matthew Passion at Ambika P3, conducted by Digby.
February 2016 saw the public launch of her professional vocal consort, multi award-winning ORA Singers[6] [7] (now the leading commissioners of new choral music in the world).