Susan Rotholz, flutist has won the 1986 Young Concert Artists award with Hexagon Piano and Winds and won as a soloist in 1981 with Concert Artists Guild.  She has established her career in New York as a performer and teacher.  Susan plays principal flute with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and New England Bach Festival, and performs regularly with Orpheus, Saint Luke’s Orchestra, American Symphony, The New York Pops, Little Orchestra Society, New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestras and is the principal flutist of the 2006-2007  Encore! series at City Center in New York.  Susan will be playing in the 2007 revival of 110 Degrees in the Shade presented by the Roundabout Theater Productions and conducted by Paul Geminiani.

Susan’s performances of chamber and solo works have been widely followed in the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, Cape May Festival, Greenwich Chamber Players, Saratoga Chamber Players, Sebago Long Lake Chamber Music, Salt Bay and Marlboro Festivals over the years. She has recorded all the Bach Flute Sonatas and the Solo Partita with Kenneth Cooper playing the Fortepiano on the Bridge Records label, to rave reviews.

Susan is a devoted teacher and chamber music coach at Columbia University, Queens College: Aaron Copland School of Music and Manhattan School of Music Pre-College.  She lives in New York with her cellist/song writer husband, Eliot Bailen, and their three children David, Daniel and Julia.