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The American pianist and music teacher, Susan DeWitt Smith, obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (1984); Master of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1985); and her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (1992).
Susan DeWitt Smith has an active career as both a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Columbia Symphony, and on subscription series with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Palomar Symphony and Dartmouth Symphony, among others, balancing her concerto performances with frequent chamber music and solo recitals. A co-founder of the Nelson Chamber Music Festival in New Zealand, she is highly regarded as a chamber musician and and collaborates on a regular basis with some of the finest musicians in the Northwest, including members of the Juilliard, Kronos, and Philadelphia string quartets. She has performed at festivals throughout the country, including the Bloch, Cascade Head, and the Cascade music festivals in Oregon, and the Grand Teton, Hot Springs and Olympic Music festivals in Wyoming, Arkansas, and Washington, respectively. She is a member of Portland’s Third Angle New Music Ensemble.
An enthusiastic and committed proponent of music education, Susan DeWitt Smith co-founded the innovative and highly successful "Music in Context" series in 2005, and has created new series called ‘Music Matters’ at Lewis & Clark College. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College as Associate Professor of Music, Director of Piano, Theory Coordinator.
Susan DeWitt Smith has recorded extensively on the KOCH International Classics label. She married Don Hermanns on December 29, 1994 and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. |
