SUSAN KAGAN

Susan Kagan, a pianist, author, and educator, has explored the music of composers associated with Beethoven and his milieu. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; her dissertation on the music of Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s composition student for more than two decades, was published by Pendragon Press in 1988 (The Music of Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Patron, Pupil, and Friend.). She has recorded several of his works on the Koch International label. Her discography includes three CDs in partnership with the renowned violinist Josef Suk (Koch), two sets of Mozart piano concertos with the Suk Chamber Orchestra of Prague (Vox and Koch Discover), and the complete solo piano sonatas and sonatinas on five CDs (Naxos 8.570796, 8.570743, 8.572204, 8.572299, 8.572300). She recently retired from the faculty of Hunter College, where she taught music history and founded the New York Chapter of the American Beethoven Society. In 2007 she received the Ira F. Brilliant Lifetime Achievement Award for Beethoven Performance and Studies from the American Beethoven Society. She is active as a reviewer of new CDs for Fanfare magazine, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Beethoven Society and the Schubert Society of the United States.

Rediscovering Ferdinand Ries by Susan Kagan

Role: Classical Artist
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