Susan Rotholz (flute)

Praised by the New York Times as “irresistible in both music and performance,” flutist, Susan Rotholz continues to be in demand as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and teacher. Winner of Young Concert Artists with Hexagon Piano and Winds and of Concert Artists Guild as soloist, Susan is Principal Flute of the Greenwich Symphony, The New York Pops and The New York Chamber Ensemble, and is a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Little Orchestra Society. She has performed as soloist and toured nationally and internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Susan is co-founder of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble presenting multi-genre chamber music concerts, and she also appears each season with the Cape May Music Festival, Greenwich Chamber Players, the Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom and the Saratoga Chamber Players. She attended the Yale School of Music from 1979 to 1981 and the Marlboro Music Festival in 1980 and 1981, and through the Marlboro Festival, she became the principal flutist with the New England Bach Festival for the following 25 years. Susan’s recordings of the complete Bach Flute Sonatas and the Solo Partita with the late forte-pianist, Kenneth Cooper and the more recently released American Tapestry, Duos for Flute and Piano with pianist, Margaret Kampmeier have continually been received with acclaim. Susan is Professor at Vassar College, Columbia University, ACSM at Queens College and Manhattan School of Music Pre-college. She has performed at the SLLMF since 1991.

[2023]