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 and Zydeco Madness.
The VARA Radio Orchestra of the Netherlands conducted by Ernest Bour gave the European premier of Trailing Vortices.
Ensembles
Quintet Tabor is a New York-based ensemble that has performed Six Minute Thirty Seconds for woodwind quintet and Waves for tape and ensemble.
Sapphire Ensemble is a New York-based ensemble that has performed Duo Montuño as well as Moving in to an Empty Space with guest artist Jacquelyn Familant.
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 the film score Alaska's Arctic Wildlife for The Discovery Channel.
Alternate Currents Performance Ensemble premiered The Starry Dynamo at The Community School of Music in San Francisco.
The Tuolumne Brass under the direction of Tom Heasley premiered The Heavens Above for Brass quintet.
Film
ImageReal Pictures
Production company for the film When Medicine Got it Wrong.
Citizen Film
Production company for the film Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in the Soviet Union.
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.
Naatak Films
Producer of the film Asphyxiating Uma
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 (1986) during Fromm Music Week commissioned in 1985 while Earle Brown was director of the Fromm Music Foundation.
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.
Stas Venglevski is a Russian accordion and bayan performer who premiered Zydeco Madness and Three Different Keyboards.
Soprano Jacquelyn Familant has performed Moving in to an Empty Space as well as Waves.
Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has performed on five recent film scores: When Medicine Got it Wrong, Balancing Acts, Making the Man, Fate of the Lhapa and Oil on Ice recorded at Fantasy Studios and Bay Area Sound Studios.
Pianist Elaine Kwon performed Duo Montuño along with Demetrius Spaneas at The Knitting Factory and The Stone 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. He also performed Uprising at Old First Concerts in San Francisco.
Joseph Gramley, marimba virtuoso and percussionist for the Silk Road Ensemble, recently recorded Marimba Montuño (2002) for his new CD Global Percussion.
André Emelianoff and Jonathan Haas premiered Floating Falling for cello and timpani at Merkin Concert Hall.
Esther Landau and Lee Alan Nolan premiered Motions of Return for flute and piano at Old First Concerts in San Francisco.
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.
Robert Emmett of Radio Station KFJC frequently broadcasts Susman's 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 Susman's concert music.
Barbara Schwarz broadcasts several works on her radio
show "Fretless" heard on ArtSound FM 92.7 in Canberra, Australia.
Reviews
San Francisco Classical Voice reviewed David Holzman's performance at Old First Concerts.
Michael McDonagh for Classical Music Review reviewed music and performances.
Education
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