Suzanne Schwing

Suzanne first trained for the stage at LAMDA and subsequently received her musical training at Boston University and Manhattan School of Music. A sought-after mezzo-soprano, Suzanne has performed in solo and/or choral capacities at such venues as New York City Opera (NYCO), Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Tanglewood, the Kennedy Center, the “Kitara” Concert Hall in Sapporo, Japan, and in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. She has sung with conductors Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, James Levine, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, George Manahan, Keith Lockhart, James Conlon, Sir Simon Rattle, Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda, and many others. As a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the John Oliver Chorale, C4, and The New York Virtuoso Singers (NYVS), she has also recorded for the Sony Classical, RCA Victor, Koch International Classics, Parma, Soundbrush Records, 4Tay, and MSR Classics labels.

In 2012, Suzanne appeared as soloist with NYVS, the Pro Arte Singers, the American Symphony, the Great Music series at St. Bart’s Church, and on tour with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, in Haifa, and at the Salzburg Festival. She also performed with the NYVS Sextet, the Collegiate Chorale, and the Pro Arte Singers. In 2013, she recorded 25 world-premiere choral compositions with NYVS (the 2-disc set “25 x25” on the Soundbrush label, released on October 8, 2013) and she sings on C4’s debut album, “C4 Volume 1: Uncaged” on the 4Tay label. With the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein, Suzanne made her Carnegie Hall solo debut as Frau Blunt in Marschner’s Der Vampyr in March, and returned to Bard SummerScape as a Fury in Taneyev’s Oresteia in July and August. She also returned to NYCO for Moses in Egypt and La Périchole at City Center in April and as a member of the Meat Rack Quartet in the American premiere of Anna Nicole at BAM in September. Upcoming projects include "Johannes Brahms - Backwards and Forwards" with NYVS at Merkin Hall in November 2013, and the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe’s The End of Tonight (composed for 3 women’s voices, 3 cellos, and piano) at The Greene Space in May 2014.