Susan Merdinger

Performances by internationally acclaimed pianist and Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger, have been hailed as “Exhilarating” by the Glasgow Herald and “Breathtaking” and by the prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Merdinger is a First Prize Winner of the 2012 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, and the 2013 International Music Competition of France, and a winner of the 1986 Artists International Young Musicians Competition, the 1990 Artists International Alumni Winners Prize, the 1990 Dewar’s Young Artists Award in Music, the 2011 IBLA Grand Prize Competition “Special Liszt Award”, and the 2009 Masterplayers International Music Competition. Merdinger performs as a soloist with orchestras, recitalist, duo pianist, and as a collaborative pianist with principal members of the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has soloed under distinguished conductors such as Glenn Cortese, Sandra Dackow, Ari Rudiakov, Ron Arden, Anatol Lysenka, Marvin von Deck, and Barry Hoffman, and made her Chicago Orchestral Debut at Harris Theater in June 2013 with The Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of distinguished Italian Conductor Mattia Rondelli, performing works by Gottschalk and Gershwin. Merdinger has appeared live on WQXR, WFMT, Connecticut Public Radio, Belgian National Radio, BBC Television and in major concert halls such as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Diligentia Hall in the Hague, Henry Wood Concert Hall in Scotland’s National Orchestra Center, Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall, the Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center and Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago. Merdinger has released several solo piano, duo piano and chamber music CD’s - all available on iTunes, Amazon. Merdinger received her formal education at Yale University, the Yale School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the Westchester Conservatory of Music, the Ecole Normale de Musique in Fontainebleau, France.