Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger joins Artist Faculty of the InterHarmony International School of Music and the InterHarmony Summer Music Festival

Multi-awarded and internationally-acclaimed classical pianist, music director, and educator Susan Merdinger has been appointed to the Artist Faculty of the InterHamony International  School of Music and InterHarmony Music Festival in Italy.

Susan is a distinguished musician with a career spanning almost four decades now. She is an alumna of Yale University, the Yale School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. Some of her awards include being a two-time Gold Medalist at the Global Music Awards, First Prize at the International Music Competition of France in 2013, Honored Artist of The American Prize in 2019, First Prizes in the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competitions for Solo and Duo, and Winner of Artists International in New York. 

Commanding standing ovations from her emotionally charged and spiritually uplifting performances in major concert halls around the world, she has been hailed as "exhilarating" by the Scotland Herald, while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung declared her playing was "breathtaking, daring, and enormously joyous.” Critics are unanimous in their descriptions of Susan's ?re, passion, thought-provoking interpretations, and astonishing technique that goes beyond the mere playing of  notes on a page; every work she presents with a masterful sound and style, reminiscent of the  "Golden Era of Pianists.”

Recently, Susan has participated in Northbrook’s Symphony’s historical virtual concert to celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. In the midst of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, fifty musicians and audio-video engineers came together to rehearse and record the concert in a socially-distanced manner, each musician at least 6 feet apart from one another, fully-masked in formal concert attire.

As an Artistic Director of Sheridan Music Studio in Chicago and Highland Park, IL,  and Video Blog Host of Merdinger’s Musings, and Steinway Sundays with Susan and Svetlana,  Susan has had a commanding presence as a piano pedagogue. Her students have been successful in their own rights as performers and educators. Her students have won many top prizes in national and international competitions, and have gained admittance to prestigious universities and music schools such as Harvard, Columbia, Rice, Eastman School of Music, Berklee College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, Carnegie Mellon, Indiana Jacobs School of Music, University of Illinois School of Music and more. Her students have performed in Carnegie Hall,  have soloed with orchestras,  have composed music for film and TV, and have successful careers and piano teachers as well.

Let Susan’s passion and dedication to music raise your level of performance when you sign up to study with her online or in Italy this Summer 2021! 

For inquiries, you may reach out to  Ms. Merdinger at Sheridan Music Studio at susan@sheridanmusicstudio.com .