The Editor
Suzanne Summerville, mezzo-soprano, choral conductor and music historian,
received her A.B. in Music from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College,
a diploma in Song and Oratorio from the Vienna Academy of Music,
a Masters in Music from the University of Houston and her doctorate
in Historical Musicology from the Freie Universität Berlin.
She was a Fulbright Scholar and has been the recipient of numerous
grants from such entities as the Alaska State Legislature, the Alaska
State Council on the Arts, the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Fairbanks
Arts Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
As a singer she has performed with the Houston Grand Opera Association
and the Studio der deutschen Oper Berlin and has given recitals
in New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Leipzig’s
St. Thomas Church and many other venues in the United States, Germany,
Holland, Poland, France, Norway and Canada. She joined the faculty
of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and in 1999 retired as Professor
of Music and Women’s Studies. At UAF she conducted the Fairbanks
Choral Society, the Fairbanks Children’s Choir, and taught
Voice and Music History.
As a writer for international encyclopedias, she has current entries
in the New Grove 2000 (Fairbanksan Robert M Crawford, composer of
"Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder"), Women Composers:
Music Through the Ages, Women and Music in America since 1900 and
the Encyclopedia of Popular Music in the World (Popular Music in
Alaska).
Her recordings include From the Great Land (ArtsVenture) song cycles
by Violet Archer, Ravonna Martin and Corey Field based on the poetry
of Interior Alaskan poets Frank Buske, Katherine Doak and Linda
Schandelmeier with Robert McCoy, piano, and Richard Nunemaker, clarinet.
She is the founding conductor Fairbanks' Sing-It-Yourself-Messiah,
winner of the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP)
CHORUS AMERICA Award for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary
Music, a citation from the 18th Legislature of the State of Alaska
and a recipient of the Alaska Governor's Award for the Arts.
Made
In Alaska Music
Suzanne Summerville, Dr. phil.
General Editor
1815 Carr Avenue
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709 - 4208
TEL (907) 456 1144
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