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“Coaching is serious business, just ask my son’s travel baseball team’s coach. They spend hours honing and perfecting the messages they send. I know they believe, as I do, that if a student hasn’t learned something, it means they really haven’t taught it yet. As a university music professor, I pride myself on not giving up until my message is clear and I can see real results from the people I work with. Each situation is different, and at the university level in music we work one on one, not in a huge classroom. That approach, I believe, is the best way for anyone to learn. Whether it is coaching people on public appearances, starting and running a not-for-profit or and other creative endeavor I am committed to turning over every stone to help figure out the best way. You have to be tenacious to succeed in my field, and I am ready to pass on some of that energy to my coaching clients.”
Bassist, composer and educator Susan Cahill has been a member of the Colorado Symphony since 1997, and on the faculty of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver since 2009.
As a soloist and chamber performer, Susan has given performances nationally and internationally. She is on faculty at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival and is a member of Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo and The Grand Teton Music Festival. She has appeared as guest musician with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Utah Symphony as well as other ensembles across the country.
Susan has been a featured performer on nationally released recordings, including with prominent flutist Alice Dade on CD which was recorded for Naxos at Skywalker Ranch in California. Susan’s solo and chamber Youtube recordings have garnered many thousands of views and are routinely used as reference recordings by the instrumentalist community for notable pieces in the repertoire.
In the fall of 2020, Susan appeared on the PBS Great Performances series ‘Now Hear This’ as a guest star along with piano soloist Stewart Goodyear and with the show’s host, Scott Yoo.
As an educator, Susan has presented at national and international conferences and as a composer her compositions have been programed nationally and locally.
As the co-director of MAS Eclectic, a not for profit concert presenting organization, Susan has welcomed many new and important artists and compositions to stages around Denver for over 10 years.
Susan is a founding member of Grande Orquesta Navarre, a group she formed with local musicians Tom Hagerman of Devotchka, Evan Orman and Sara Parkinson. GON formed out of the roots of her former Tango ensemble Extasis and continues to present original works as well as transcriptions of just about anything that strikes their fancy, modern or not.
Susan is fortunate to play on two beautiful instruments, an Italian instrument from Turin made in 1824, and a modern instrument made in 2015 by Nick Lloyd of Cincinnati. She also performs on a one of a kind Sartory French bow made in 1921.
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