Susanne O
Instruments: Saxophone, Clarinet
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Folk, Showtunes, Latin Jazz, Swing, Bossa Nova

I love people. I love music. I delight in delving into the riches of different musical cultures and expressions, and to pass on what I know.  I have performed all over Germany, in Switzerland, Israel, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, NYC, and Canada, both as a soloist and as a member of the German Klezmer Quartet “Sing Your Soul“, of the Ortner-Roberts Duo with pianist Tom Roberts, and the klezmer duo Klez&Morim with Bulgarian accordionist Vladimir Mollov. I also collaborate with US jazz musicians such as guitarist John Marcinizyn (Pittsburgh), trumpeter Charlie Caranicas (NYC), drummer Tom Elrick, drummer Roger Humphries (Pittsburgh), as well as multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano (NYC).   I am a serious researcher of Eastern European music, and offer Klezmer Workshops. Besides master classes and lectures at the University of Pittsburgh, and Duquesne University, I instructed the klezmer band at the Agency for Jewish Learning, was the interim director of the Carpathian Ensemble at The University of Pittsburgh, and have been coaching the CMU/Hillel klezmer band. I currently holds an adjunct teaching position at Washington & Jefferson College. I have arranged and composed music for many theatrical productions including “Mazel” by Amy Hartman (Jewish Theatre Pittsburgh), and “Our Class” by Tadeusz Slobodzianek (Pittsburgh Irish And Classical Theatre).  I appear  on several CDs, including “A Trip To America” and “Hot World Chamber Music” (Ortner-Roberts Duo), “A Tribute to Teenie Harris” (Manchester Craftsmen’s Guilde), “Khosn Kale Mazl-Tov” (Sing Your Soul), and have done book and film projects.   I am also the subject of the recent book “Living the Dream” – Für die Musik nach Amerika” (Wissner Verlag Augsburg, 2011), written by German Television journalist Helge Fuhst.