Female Composer Sue Aston graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire and freelanced as a professional violinist with many orchestras as well as doing sessions for rock and folk bands. It was also during this time that she appeared on classical recordings, radio and television, both nationally and internationally, and worked with eminent musicians such as Simon Rattle, Nigel Kennedy, Peter Donohoe, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Charles Groves and Esa Pekka Salonen.