Orchestras

The Aspen Chamber Orchestra conducted by Stephen Mosko gave the world premier of Trailing Vortices.

The Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra conducted by Allen Robert Gross performed Angels of Light.

The San Jose Chamber Orchestra conducted by Barbara Day Turner performed Angels of Light.

The VARA Radio Orchestra of the Netherlands conducted by Ernest Bour gave the European premier of Trailing Vortices.

ENSEMBLES

The Buffalo New Music Ensemble under the direction of Michael McCandless performed Twisted Figures (1988) for chamber ensemble. A prolific composer and extraordinary pianist, Michael McCandless was a founding member of two influential new music ensembles — the California E.A.R. Unit, still very much in existence today, and the Buffalo New Music Ensemble, active from 1982 to 1992.

ALEA III conducted by Theodore Antoniou premiered Twisted Figures.

The City Winds
This San Francisco wind quintet premiered Six Minutes Thirty Seconds and toured with it throughout the US. The City Winds also performed on my film score Alaska's Arctic Wildlife for The Discovery Channel.

Alternate Currents Performance Ensemble under the direction of clarinetist Laura Carmichael premiered The Starry Dynamo.

The Tuolumne Brass Tubist under the direction of Tom Heasley premiered The Heavens Above for Brass quintet.

FILM

Indigenous Lenses
Production Company for the film Fate of the Lhapa

Native New Yorker
Official Website for the award-winning film.

Bo Boudart Productions
Scored several of his wildlife, ecology, cultural, educational and science programs

Lobitos Creek Ranch
Executive producer of the film Oil on Ice.

Naatak Films
Producer of the film Asphyxiating Uma

Cosmic Dance Films
Producer of the film Daydream Believer

Image
Daydream Believer won best dramatic short at ImageFest '99.

Internet Movie Database
The IMDb is the ultimate online movie database covering over 325,000 titles and over 1,000,000 people with facts, trivia, reviews plus multimedia links from the earliest films to the latest releases.

Listing of films scored by William Susman with complete credits.

MUSIC FESTIVALS

The American Festival of Microtonal Music
This annual New York music festival premiered Turbulence for flute solo and Nnyl for trombone solo.

The Aspen Music Festival
The Aspen Orchestra with Stephen Mosko Conducting gave the US premier of Trailing Vortices.

The International Gaudeamus Music Week
The VARA Radio Orchestra with Ernest Bour Conducting gave the European premier of Trailing Vortices.

PERFORMERS

Multi-wind virtuoso and composer Demetrius Spaneas frequently performs my works including a new live performance version of the award-winning film Native New Yorker.

Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has performed on three recent film scores MAKING THE MAN, FATE OF THE LHAPA and OIL ON ICE recorded at Fantasy Studios.

Pianist Elaine Kwon performed DUO MONTUÑO along with Demetrius Spaneas at The Knitting Factory in NYC.

The Classical Composers Database features information about classical composers and classical music.

Tibetan Vocalist extraordinaire Tsering Wangmo performed on the soundtrack to Fate of the Lhapa.

David Holzman (2003 Grammy Award Nominee) premiered Uprising at The Greenwich House, NYC, and gave the west coast premiere at The Community School for Music & Arts. David is the Vladimir Horowitz of contemporary classical piano.  

Produced concerts with Daniel David Feinsmith in the San Francisco Bay area by 2003 Grammy-nominee David Holzman, including Old First Concerts, Community School of Music and Arts and a house concert in Palo Alto. Composers represented were Bloch, Feinsmith, Griffes, Gershwin, Kahn, Martino, Schoenberg, Schumann, Stravinsky, Susman, and Wolpe.

Fromm Music Foundation
In 1985, Earle Brown, then director of the Fromm Music Foundation, asked me to write a new work for chamber orchestra, Trailing Vortices (1986), which was premiered at the Aspen Music Festival during Fromm Music Week.

Joseph Gramley, marimba virtuoso and percussionist for the Silk Road Ensemble, recently recorded MARIMBA MONTUÑO (2002) for his new CD.

Merkin Concert Hall
André Emelianoff and Jonathan Haas premiered Floating Falling at Merkin Concert Hall in New York.

Nancy Gilliland
Nancy asked me to perform on her new CD, Out of My Dreams

Old First Concerts
Esther Landau and Lee Alan Nolan premiered Motions of Return for flute and piano.

RADIO

Radio Interview featuring various concert works recorded in Chicago for Bruce Duffie's "Classical and Beyond" WNUR, 89.3 FM, and Contemporary Classical Internet Radio

Interview with host David Latulippe of KALW 91.7 FM, San Francisco, for David Holzman performance at Old First Concerts and the Community School for Music & Arts. The interview with composer Daniel David Feinsmith included a broadcast of Susman's Twisted Figures (1988) and Motions of Return (1996) and, Feinsmith's Leviathan and String Quartet #1.

KUSF 90.3 FM hosted by Renee Witon in San Francisco broadcast WAVES for piano and computer-generated sound.

The Netherlands radio station Concert Zender broadcast a two-hour special of my music several times in 2003. They play a very diverse and compelling mix 24 hours a day.

Robert Emmett of Radio Station KFJC frequently broadcasts my music on "The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show".

The Kalvos and Damian Show WGDR 91.1 FM heard in Vermont and hosted by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz broadcasts my concert music.

Barbara Schwarz broadcasts my music on her radio
show "Fretless" heard on ArtSound FM 92.7 in Canberra, Australia.

REVIEWS

San Francisco Classical Voice recently reviewed David Holzman's performance at Old First Concerts.

Michael McDonagh for Classical Music Review writes about my music and performances.

EDUCATION

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