Presented by the Cuban Cultural Center
as part of United in Sound: America at 250

The cell, Chelsea

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As part of Carnegie Hall’s landmark United in Sound: America at 250 festival, the Cuban Cultural Center proudly presents the New York performance and album release of Songs of Juana Borrero, a song cycle by composer and vocalist Dr. Stephanie Susberich.

This deeply expressive work sets the poetry of Juana Borrero, the nearly forgotten 19th-century Cuban poetess whose brief life burned with intensity, imagination, and visionary force. Her poetry reveals a fierce interior world shaped by love, mysticism, longing, and the ever-present nearness of death. Susberich’s music enters this inner terrain with reverence and emotional precision, giving voice to a young woman whose artistic brilliance far exceeded her years.

The concert marks the official release of the album Songs of Juana Borrero, featuring Dr. Stephanie Susberich as soprano, with Brenda Quattrini, piano, and Ty Ferone, cello. Together, the trio brings this intimate, luminous score to life in the resonant setting of The cell, a space renowned for adventurous and interdisciplinary performance.

This presentation is part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide 2026 festival, celebrating America’s cultural plurality and creative legacy. The event will be featured on Carnegie Hall’s website and included in its official festival catalogue, distributed throughout New York City, marking a significant moment for the composer, performers, and all collaborating institutions.

Songs of Juana Borrero is both an act of remembrance and a declaration of presence, restoring a vital poetic voice to the contemporary concert stage while affirming the enduring power of song to carry history, identity, and inner fire forward.

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What Love Knows Death is a Valentine’s salon devoted not to innocence, but to initiation.

This evening explores love after it has encountered loss, finitude, and transformation. Through operatic arias and original compositions, the program traces the moment when desire continues to breathe, yet mortality is no longer absent from the room.

Here, Eros is not extinguished by Thanatos, nor does death silence love. Instead, the two exist in tension: passion under witness, beauty tempered by awareness, intimacy shaped by consequence. The music inhabits this charged threshold, where longing deepens rather than dissolves, and where love learns gravity without surrendering radiance.

Performed by Dr. Stephanie Susberich, with Brenda Quattrini at the piano, the salon invites listeners into a contemplative space where devotion, rupture, memory, and endurance coexist.

The evening will unfold in an exclusive Manhattan residence and will include both a concert and salon gathering. Guests are received by invitation and curated registration to preserve the integrity of the experience.

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Presented by Composers Concordance
RedEye NY | February 7

Composer and vocalist Dr. Stephanie Susberich appears as a featured performer in Chamber vs. the 1s & 2s, an evening that places acoustic chamber music in dialogue with electronics, beats, and live processing.

The program explores the friction and resonance between the human voice and contemporary electronic sound worlds. Susberich will perform Gene Pritsker’s 7 Short Poems, a work that highlights vocal immediacy, text-driven intensity, and sharp expressive contrast.

She will also present an excerpt from her own Songs of Juana Borrero song cycle, reimagined for live voice and electronics. This electronic realization extends the emotional and poetic terrain of Borrero’s texts into a modern sonic landscape, where intimacy and abstraction coexist, and the voice becomes both embodied presence and resonant signal.

Hosted at RedEye NY, Chamber vs. the 1s & 2s reflects Composers Concordance’s ongoing commitment to championing adventurous composers and performers at the intersection of classical tradition and contemporary innovation.

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DVSSIMA steps into the neighborhood with a special pop-up concert at Miss Du’s Tea Shop, a beloved Chinatown space known for its exquisite teas, intimate atmosphere, and baby grand piano tucked into the heart of the room.

This relaxed, luminous evening features operatic arias spanning centuries, performed by Dr. Stephanie Susberich, with Brenda Quattrini at the piano. The program brings the warmth and immediacy of the voice into close proximity with listeners, offering a moment of beauty, breath, and resonance amid the everyday rhythms of the city.

Unlike the curated salon format, this DVSSIMA Pop-Up is open, informal, and communal, an offering of opera as lived experience. Guests are invited to sip tea, settle in, and let music drift through the room, regaling Chinatown with melody, color, and feeling.

A gentle celebration of voice, place, and presence, this pop-up reflects DVSSIMA’s belief that beauty belongs both in rarefied interiors and in the shared life of the city.

Inner Form, In Her Fire inaugurates the DVSSIMA Salon series with an exploration of containment, intensity, and feminine interiority.

This evening traces how form does not restrain fire, but holds it, shapes it, and allows it to speak with clarity and power. Through operatic arias spanning three centuries alongside original works by composer and vocalist Dr. Stephanie Susberich, the program explores the disciplined vessel as the necessary condition for resonance, presence, and transformation.

At the center of the salon is the idea that true expression is not excess, but precision; not spectacle, but inner heat made legible. The music moves between restraint and release, stillness and ignition, revealing how voice becomes an instrument of both structure and flame.

Accompanied by pianist Brenda Quattrini, this intimate salon introduces DVSSIMA as a cultural house devoted to synesthetic experience, interior depth, and the revival of the salon as a space of listening, thought, and embodied beauty.

This inaugural gathering marks the beginning of an ongoing series devoted to music as architecture of the soul.

The evening will take place in an exclusive Manhattan residence and will include both a concert and post-performance salon gathering. Attendance is curated to preserve intimacy, dialogue, and presence.

On January 17, soprano and composer Dr. Stephanie Susberich presents an intimate evening of operatic and vocal works spanning three centuries, tracing the evolution of dramatic expression from the classical and bel canto traditions to the contemporary voice.

The program features iconic arias by Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, and Puccini, alongside original works by Dr. Susberich, offering a rare glimpse into a living composer-performer’s artistic world. Together, these selections explore longing, devotion, transformation, and the inner life of the voice across time.

Dr. Susberich is joined by pianist Brenda Quattrini, whose sensitive and nuanced playing anchors the evening with depth and clarity.

This salon continues the spirit of Dr. Susberich’s ongoing intimate concert series, where great repertoire, new music, and cultivated listening meet in a shared, reflective space.

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Dr. Stephanie Susberich will be joined by her collaborator, pianist Brenda Quattrini, for an intimate winter soirée in a rarefied Manhattan setting. Hosted in a private residence, the evening features a curated selection of arias and original compositions, offered in the spirit of the salon tradition. This salon is fully subscribed.

My new string set (violin solo; viola and cello duet; cello, violin and viola trio; and string quartet) will participate in Composers Concordance’s Composers Tournament:

On Halloween (Friday, October 31st, 2025) at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents the First Annual Composers Tournament! Five fearless composers enter, but only one will emerge victorious. Their weapons? Original compositions for string quartet and its subsets.

The showdown begins with five solo violin pieces, performed by the dazzling Audrey Morse — but only four make it through. Next, duos for viola and cello decide who stays and who goes. Then, trios for violin, viola, and cello raise the stakes, eliminating yet another contender. Finally, only two composers remain for the ultimate string quartet battle, where one will claim the crown!

An electrifying panel of judges — violin virtuoso Lara St. John, dancer Linda Pehrson, jazz trombone legend Dick Griffin, and writer Peter Christian Hall — will determine the fates of our composers.

Since the tournament falls on Halloween, everyone — performers, composers, and audience alike — will be in costume. Expect tricks, treats, and a musical duel like no other.

The competing composers: Charles Coleman, Seth Boustead, Audrey Morse, Gene Pritsker, and Stephanie Susberich. Beyond their compositions, they’ll also take on unexpected roles — hosting, keeping score, even greeting and taking tickets! All works will be performed anonymously by the fabulous (and devilishly named) Hell’s Kitchen String Quartet.

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Reading of my string orchestra piece, The Origin of Life, by Isaac Hayward’s String Orchestra Project. My piece was read by conductor, Will Curry.

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My first Groupmuse tonight! I sing opera…

I sang for the Carpathia West Ball, honoring King Osei the III of Ghana.

This Saturday, at seven pm, I will debut at Joe’s Pub, singing on a program called Sound Liberation, a fusion of classical, rock, jazz, hip-hop, and world music. I’ll be singing some Mozart as well on pieces by living composers. This is in conjunction with Composers Concordance. Here’s the link for tickets!

I will perform my entire Juana Borrero song cycle this Wednesday at 7:00 pm for Pangea’s Incubator Festival.

“We want to shine a light on new work that's hard to categorize sometimes, but that hits us in a deep place,” says Stephen Shanaghan, Pangea's co-owner and entertainment director.  “We will produce these festivals each time we see a wave of new work at a high level that we can help bring to full fruition.”

I’ll be joined by Karen Xie on piano and Ty Ferone on cello.

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Tonight I perform in Michael T’s tribute to Blondie at Otto’s Shrunken Head, the East Village, NYC

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ONE OF MY PIECES WILL BE PERFORMED: “POR QUE DE MIS SUEÑOS,” FROM MY UPCOMING ALBUM, SONGS OF JUANA BORRERO

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ONE OF MY PIECES WILL BE PERFORMED: “POR QUE DE MIS SUEÑOS,” FROM MY UPCOMING ALBUM, SONGS OF JUANA BORRERO

Composers Concordance has commissioned a new piece from me, “Am I Not Here?” for trombone trio, drums, electric guitar, and bass guitar.

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TromBonafide

Continuing the 'Timbre Tantrum' Series -

Three Great Trombonists Plus Rhythm Section

Perform a Set of New Music.

Composers

Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Dick Griffin,

Gene Pritsker, Dave Soldier,

Stephanie Susberich, Steve Swell, David Taylor

Performers

David Taylor, Dick Griffin, Steve Swell - trombones,

Gene Pritsker - guitar, Jose Moura - bass, Damien Bassman - drums

`Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 7pm

NUBLU

151 Ave C, NYC

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My Next Sounds Concert series at East Village hub, Pangea.

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Anna Sorokina (DMA, 2025) premieres my viola piece, Moon to Dust.

This piece is an homage to great Czech composer, Dvorak.

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Join composer and soprano, Stephanie Susberich, for an intimate evening of music at her concert series salon, Next Sounds. Summer Serenata is a concert dedicated to the people of New York, and a tribute to a summer well-spent.

Accompanied by pianist Karen Xie, Stephanie will offer beautiful bel canto arias and original contemporary art songs from her song cycle, Songs of Juana Borrero, and her doctoral dissertation in music composition. The evening offers a collage of sounds, with songs imbued with romance, redemption, and renewal, from classical to contemporary works. This is her send off concert before she returns to Kansas City to complete the last semester of classes for her doctorate in music composition, and she will sing you beautiful tunes to close out this most special summer. Enjoy a selection of spirits in a private, boutique setting in NYC's downtown while being serenaded with some of history's most beautiful music delivered by a living composer, alongside her own bewitchingly crafted vocal compositions. A night to remember!

Stephanie Susberich is a composer and vocalist whose work has been premiered by the Etchings Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Radius Ensemble, among others. She has performed original work as well as classical arias and art songs in venues as diverse as L.A.'s Viper Room to NYU’s Kimmel Center. Stephanie holds a BA from New York University, an MM in classical vocal performance (New Jersey City University), a graduate diploma in composition (Longy School of Music) and an MA in composition from Tufts University. She is currently entering the last year of her doctorate in music composition at the University of Missouri Kansas City, where she served as a graduate teaching assistant, instructing undergraduate composers for three semesters. She also worked as a soloist for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City. Her music combines a singer's love of melody and narrative with a composer's fascination with timbral experimentation and beauty.

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I am now the artistic director of a concert series featuring classical and new music. Our inaugural show is this Thursday, June 13th, in the East Village. Email or DM for address.

I’ll perform an original composition for Composer’s Concordance’s 14th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon. This event includes about 25 composers sharing their original works in a line-up celebrating New York’s new music.

Brenda Quattrini (pianist) and I perform classic art songs, including some of my own originals at Pangea for Jackson Scott’s eclectic night of music.

Monet and his Modern Contemporaries
Friday, March 1 | Noguchi Court
Public $6 | Members $3

Yuefeng Liu and I will perform Debussy’s timeless melodie: Nuit D’etoiles (night of stars) in a serene, art-filled space at Kansas City’s renowned museum

How does color enliven our experience of sound? How might we detect musicality in passages of paint? Join UMKC Conservatory musicians to explore cultural, critical, and emotional convergences between visual art and music. This first concert in a series of three invites you into the artistic and sensory meeting ground of Monet and his contemporaries in music for a celebration of their shared sensibilities and legacies.

The concert series takes place on Fridays, March 1, April 5, and April 19. Each hour-long concert is presented twice in one evening, at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Select the time that works best for you.

This interdisciplinary series is graciously supported by the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation.

The UMKC Graduate Fellowship String Quartet premieres my piece, Discretio Spirituum, at Second Presbyterian Church, KC.

318 E. 55th St. Kansas City, MO 64113

7:30 PM