Praised by the New York Times as “irresistible in both music and performance” flutist Susan Rotholz continues to be in demand as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and teacher.

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Winner of Young Concert Artists with Hexagon Piano and Winds and of Concert Artists Guild as a soloist, Ms. Rotholz is Principal flute of the Greenwich Symphony and The New York Chamber Ensemble and a member of the  Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The New York Pops and the Little Orchestra Society. She has recorded and toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. 

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Co-founder of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, she also appears each season with the Cape May Music Festival, Greenwich Chamber Players, Saratoga Chamber Players and the Sebago Long Lake Chamber Music Festival.

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Ms. Rotholz attended the Marlboro Music Festival and was principal and solo flutist with New England Bach Festival for 25 years.   

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Her recording of the Bach Flute Sonatas and the Solo Partita with Kenneth Cooper, fortepiano is described by The Wall Street Journal as “eloquent and musically

persuasive.”

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Recently, she released American Tapestry, Duos for Flute and Piano performing the Beaser Variations, commissioned by Susan in 1982, Copland Duo, Muczynski and Liebermann Sonatas presented by Bridge Records as “…brilliant instrumental virtuosity with deep understanding of this quintessentially American repertoire.”

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Ms. Rotholz has been newly appointed as Adjunct Artist in Music at Vassar College and continues to teach at Columbia University/Barnard College, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College.  She also was guest performer and teacher at the Colorado College Music Festival.

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Ms. Rotholz holds degrees from Queens College (BM) and Yale School of Music (MM). In 2002 she received the Norman Vincent Peale Award for Positive Thinking.