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Susanne Heinrich studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory of Nuremberg, and at the Frankfurt State Academy of Music, where she passed her recital diploma with the highest distinction. She was then granted the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to study with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
She has performed and recorded with many leading period-instrument ensembles of Europe, and has made over 15 recordings with Charivari Agréable mostly for Signum Records. Susanne has been a member of the Palladian Ensemble since 1994 (see Linn Records for recordings) and she has written for various journals, including The Consort, and Chelys (now out of print).
Susanne's recording of solo viol music by Carl Friedrich Abel won her the Editor's Choice Gramophone Award in 2008 and a Diapason d'Or. The revised New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians refers to her as one of the 'leading players' of this generation.

Apart from performing and some private teaching, Susanne now devotes some of her time to the chief editorship of Charivari Agréable Publications which specialises in yet unpublished music (mostly for viols), as well as her own arrangements. She also took on the role of the administrator to the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain in 2009.

'This is outstanding artistry' - Early Music Magazine

'Smooth as melted chocolate' - Classic CD

'I can see her bow flying across the strings: the playing of the passagework is reminiscent of a virtuoso violinist' - Viola da Gamba Mitteilungen, Switzerland

'The Rolls-Royce of viol players' - Pete McCarthy, double bass (Music in the Village)