"For better or worse, I don't come from the academy, I come from the theater where if you lose your audience you're dead. So in any composition, in any style or venue, I try to bring the audience along with me wherever I'm going." Having graduated from Harvard University in 1979 with a degree in music, Susan spent the next 15 years working as a playwright before "coming home" to full time composition. Since then, she has been commissioned by a wide range of performers and ensembles resulting in a growing catalog of vocal, chamber, and choral works characterized by a vivid, often chromatic t...