Sue – Tenor

Hi, I’m Sue and I am the tenor in Enigma. I am happily married to Tim and work full time as a program assistant for a telecommunications company.

I have always been involved with music of some kind from as far back as I can remember, being in the school choir and also the school recorder group where I first learnt to read music. My father was a great jazz pianist who had his own band in the 60’s and this is probably where I get my love of music from.

In the late seventies I was a member of a choral society which I thoroughly enjoyed, but after seeing an advert in Farnborough Library for a Sweet Adelines barbershop singing group (Empress Chapter) I went along and was immediately hooked on barbershop and a-capella singing. I still appreciate other forms of music though, like opera and the artistes of today like Coldplay and Keane.

When Empress Chapter Sweet Adelines disbanded, I joined LABBS (Reading Barberettes) and had many happy years with them through the eighties and nineties (my best memory being when we achieved the silver medal at Brean Sands).

I joined Capital Connection in the late nineties and had a great couple of years with them and was thrilled to get a chorus bronze medal during that time.

I was very happy to be a member of Synergy quartet and we were delighted to get the Bronze medal in 2002. Three of the members of Synergy then formed Enigma in 2003 with Sue Burgis as bass and Steph changing to baritone. We are now all members of Signature chorus from Iver Heath.

I am very proud to be a member of Signature (Iver Heath) which is a small but highly talented group of singers with excellent leadership, and we were thrilled to win both the Small Chorus Award and the LABBS Gold medal in 2006.

Apart from singing barbershop I have also been a backing singer in a New Country band with my husband who plays guitar.One of our performances was on the huge stage at Wembley Stadium during a Line Dance Championship which was great fun.