KAGAN, SUSAN

Susan Kagan, a pianist, author, and educator, holds a Ph.D from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation on the music of Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s only composition student, was published by Pendragon Press in 1988, under the title Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Patron, Pupil, and Friend. Susan Kagan taught music history at Hunter College, CUNY, where she founded the New York Chapter of the American Beethoven Society in 1995. She is also a reviewer of new recordings for Fanfare Magazine. Her discography includes three CDs issued by Koch International, in partnership with the renowned Czech violinist Josef Suk. She has also recorded two sets of Mozart piano concertos with the Suk Chamber Orchestra of Prague on the Vox and Koch Discover labels. Her CD of solo piano music by Beethoven and his pupils, Ferdinand Ries and Archduke Rudolph, was released by Koch International in 2001. In 2002 Susan Kagan was awarded the Antonín Dvořák Award by the Masaryk Academy of the Arts in Prague for her contribution to Czech musical culture. In 2007 she received the Ira F. Brilliant Lifetime Achievement Award for Beethoven Performance and Studies from the American Beethoven Society. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Beethoven Society, the American Schubert Institute, and the Schubert Society of the United States.

RIES, F.: Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas (Complete), Vol. 1 (Kagan) - Opp. 11, 45	8.570796