Susanna Loewy
Executive Director
Flutist Susanna Loewy received a BM and MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a DMA from Rutgers University. Her principal teachers were Jeffrey Khaner, Joshua Smith, Bart Feller, and Philip Dunigan.
Susanna is Flute Faculty at Rowan University and Haverford College, and teaches for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Susanna is a Pedagogy Coach and Mentor for the New World Symphony in Miami. She works with the New World Symphony Fellows throughout the year as part of their College Track Program. From 2014-2023, Susanna was the Program Director and Lead Teaching Artist for Project 440, creating curriculum and implementing programs. In 2012, Susanna founded the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival in Jamaica, VT, a 2-week summer festival emphasizing music and visual art. Susanna is currently the Artistic Director of PFCM, acting as curator and flutist.
Susanna is the Principal Flutist for Inscape, a chamber music group based in the DC area that was nominated for a Grammy for its debut CD, "Sprung Rhythm." In August of 2015, Inscape released a 17-player chamber orchestra arrangement of Stravinsky's Petrushka. Inscape also recorded Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher with the WolfTrap Opera Company, and has several upcoming releases under the Naxos label. From 2016-2022, Susanna was also the flutist for the NakedEye Ensemble, "an eclectic eight-member electro-acoustic ensemble with classical, rock, and jazz DNA, [that] commissions and performs seminal works by cross-over and cutting-edge composers."
Susanna is a flutist for the Network for New Music. She has played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Opera, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and The Philly Pops, amongst other groups in the Philadelphia area and across the country.
Susanna maintains a private flute studio in the Philadelphia area, and her students have been accepted into colleges and conservatories such as Oberlin, Manhattan School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Shenandoah Conservatory, DePaul University, Temple University, University of Delaware, and Rutgers/Mason Gross School of the Arts. This summer, Susanna started Flutes on Locust Walk, a week-long summer camp for high school, college, and adult flutists.
Susanna is a Verne Q. Powell Artist and plays Powell instruments.
Outside of the musical realm, Susanna is a certified Spinning teacher and Triathlon/Marathon coach and has been a sponsored IronMan Distance Triathlete. During the summer of 2008, as a part of Bike and Build, she biked across the country from Florida to San Francisco, while helping with affordable housing projects along the way. With her students, Susanna encourages a healthy and active lifestyle.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I aim to both partake in, and help create, a broad range of performances that are impactful to my communities.
TEACHING ARTIST STATEMENT
Music careers, in our current 21st-century world, are difficult. We have to learn that they won’t necessarily take on the form as that of our role models, our idols, our classical music rock stars. That can be hard to accept. But once you do, once you realize that you really can make your own opportunities, the musical world is large and bright. You can create situations that truly fit who you are, personally and musically; you can shape your career and teaching to be exactly what it needs to be. Because, no matter what the model, our world will always need music. We’ve evolved as musical beings, and that’s not going to go away. If anything, humanity is starving for more; it’s up to us to put it out there.