Susanna Klein
Area coordinator
Assistant professor
Violin
Phone: (804) 828-1798
E-mail: sbklein@vcu.edu
Office: James W. Black Music Center, Room 3004
Susanna Klein is assistant professor of violin and coordinator of strings at her alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University. She has 15 years of professional orchestral performing experience and enjoys focusing on chamber music performance at VCU.
Klein served as principal second violin of the Richmond Symphony for five years. Previous orchestral appointments have been with the Colorado, Memphis, Vermont and Rhode Island Symphony Orchestras. She has been a member of two string quartets — Artist-in-Residence with the Oberon String Quartet at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Va. and violist with the Seneca String Quartet in Boston, Mass.
She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from VCU and Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she was a student of Roman Totenberg. Her love of chamber music and orchestral literature has taken her to festivals all over the world: Tanglewood, Mass., Spoleto Festival Italy, Shira Festival Israel, Kneisel Hall, ME and Scotia Festival Canada. Susanna can be heard on the CDs of One Ring Zero, Modern Groove Syndicate and the Klavier label Chamber Music Series.
Klein can be heard regularly on radio and TV spots including the PBS Series “The Retirement Revolution.” In September 2008, she was the featured soloist for nine performances with the Richmond Ballet in Chausson’s Poeme.
