Intro

     Susan is a native of Kansas City, a graduate of the UMKC Conservatory of Music and the Cincinnati Conservatory, and continues to teach privately in Overland Park for now over 20 years.  She is a past President and board member of the Kansas City Flute Association, an ongoing member of the National Flute Association and was a 2009 NFA K.C. Convention Co-Presenter  for "Flying Fingers:  How to Get Yours!".  Her name has been featured in the August 2010 edition of  435 South magazine's "The List" which includes established locals "who have had a positive impact on people in the community".  She is requested in the local school districts as a woodwind judge, a performer and clinician.  The studio accomplishments are listed on the Student Successes page of this site.   Susan continues to enjoy her active and home-based flute studio in south Overland Park, where she resides with her husband of 20 years and their  twin boys.

     Susan received B.M. in Flute Performance from the UMKC Conservatory, worked toward her M.M. at the Manhattan School of Music in NYC and completed it at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory.  Throughout her college years, Susan has truly enjoyed instructing flutists who have been as young as 3 and as old as 83!  She has taught at the Cincinnati School for the Performing Arts, the UMKC Conservatory, Pittsburg State University, as well as from her Overland Park home. 

    Susan has appeared as featured soloist with the Youth Symphony of Kansas City, the Kansas City Symphony, the former K.C. Camerata orchestra, the UMKC Conservatory Orchestra and the NewEar Ensemble, the latter of which she is a co-founder. She has also performed as a regular member with the professional ensembles:   K.C. Camerata, NewEar, the Rafael Trio and the Classical Muse Ensemble.  She has been a featured recitalist in N.Y.C., Cincinnati, and throughout K.C. and Overland Park and has organized close to 100 student performances over the last 25 years.  She has performed flute, piccolo and alto flute with many of K.C.’s Theater League productions, KC's Bachathon, the National Flute Association Convention ensembles, and the K.C. Chamber Orchestra.  She has twice been a finalist in Myrna Brown International Flute Competition in Texas, Julius Baker summer class recipient, a featured performer on Cincinnati Public Radio,  James Galway's Technical Demonstrator for his KC master class, and a performer for many flute masters including  Paula Robison, Jimmy Walker, Leone Buyse, Julia Bogorad, Jeffrey Khaner, the late Sam Baron, the late Thomas Nyfenger, Bonnie Boyd and more.