Suzanne Alderton credits her father with her passion for music. As a young man he played the piano and banjo at bush dances and woolshed balls across north-eastern Victoria. When he married, he determined that his daughters would share his love of the performing arts and music was a constant source of inspiration in the family home.
“My mother had also studied music with the nuns in her home town of Bendigo, so it was inevitable that my sister and I would be sent off for lessons,” Suzanne recalls. “Fortunately, my first
