Susan LaFever

Susan LaFever has been a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in concerts throughout the United States, Western Europe, Mexico and Japan. Called “bold and striking” with “a confident lyric quality” by the New York Times, she has partnered with some of the world’s finest musicians.

As a recitalist, and on her recently released CD, Ms. LaFever performs with Ron Levy, collaborative pianist. The duo has performed in New Jersey and Connecticut with upcoming performances in the Midwest and Florida. Ms. LaFever has appeared at the American Landmark Festivals at Federal Hall, St. Bartholomew’s Tuesday Chapel Concerts, and the Noonday Concert Series at St. Paul’s Chapel, all in Manhattan. Outside of Manhattan, she has performed at the Brooklyn Museum Sunday Afternoon Concert Series, Queens College and Downtown Music at Grace, White Plains, NY, among others.

Soloing with orchestras, Ms. LaFever has been in front of such groups as the Lincoln Civic Orchestra, Rutgers University Orchestra, South Orange Symphony Orchestra and Bergen Youth Orchestra.

Ms. LaFever performs extensively as a chamber musician, and as a member of various groups, has played in major metropolitan concert halls and on TV and radio, including Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Town Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, Royal Albert Hall in London and at the International Forum’s Hall A in Tokyo—one of the largest in the world with a seating capacity of over 5,000. Recently she appeared live on CBS as part of the musical extravaganza opening the Women’s Finals at center court, US Open with Edina Menzel, star of Broadway’s “Wicked”, and Il Divo, pop/classical male vocal group. She has also been heard live on WBAI in New York City, on WAMC’s “Performance Place” hosted by Paul Elisha in Albany, and on national TV in Mexico City.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska and Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with David Jolley, Ms. LaFever is Principal Horn of the Candlewood Chamber Orchestra and Third Horn of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra. She is a former co-principal of the Sarasota Opera and former fourth horn of the New Jersey Opera Festival. She has subbed on Broadway in The Lion King, The Sound of Music and Cats and has also been called to play extra with the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. LaFever teaches at the Ridgewood and Amadeus conservatories and has given master classes at Western Illinois University, Kean University and the Fieldston School, The Bronx.