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ALEXANDER-MAX, SUSAN A finalist in the International Bach Competition, Susan Alexander-Max, a native of New York City, is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. On completing her studies there, she won a scholarship to study with Ilona Kabos in London, where she now resides. Since then she has performed in festivals, music clubs, museums and galleries, and educational institutions throughout the world. Highlights of her performances include some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, including the Cheltenham International Festival of Music; Queen’s Festival of Early Music, Belfast; the English Haydn Festival; the Haydn Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria; the Vleeshuis Museum, Antwerp; and the Prague Spring International Festival of Music. She is a frequent guest artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and she can be heard regularly in major London venues. Susan Alexander-Max has been featured as concerto soloist, recital soloist and chamber musician and has given the première performances of the Piano Quartet by the Russian composer Leonid Feygin, Figures and Tetrapteron by the Swiss composer Jean-Jacques Dünki, January 1795, Spring, Stanzas for Music and So We’ll Go No More a Roving by the British composer Rachel Stott, and Eduardova Rides the Tram by the New Zealand composer, Glenda Keam. Her recording of chamber music by Hummel was awarded top ratings from BBC Music Magazine and was received throughout the world to outstanding critical acclaim. She has been presented on American and European radio and television including BRTN, Belgium, WCAL and WYNC—TV, USA, BBC Radio Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Scotland. In 1996 she founded the world renowned chamber ensemble, The Music Collection, the chamber ensemble that specialises in the music of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, performing solely on period instruments. For many years she served as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and now gives lecture-recitals, workshops and masterclasses on the fortepiano and clavichord to all keyboard players. She has been invited to teach in music schools and universities worldwide, including the Queen’s University, Belfast, the Universities of North & South Carolina, USA, Sheffield University, UK, Wells Cathedral School, UK, the Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff and the Juilliard School of Music, New York City. More recently she established Music in Schools, a charitable programme taking historic instruments into secondary schools to foster and inspire young talent.
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