Joyce Hope Suskind

Biography

Joyce Hope Suskind (1928-2017) enjoyed a varied career as composer, performer, and teacher in New York, her native city. After completing her studies at Juilliard as a scholarship student in oboe and voice, Suskind discovered her talent for composing while playing improvisational piano at the Martha Graham School. She received a commission from Lehman College to compose a score for a Balinese dance which was written for gamelan, flute, and percussion. She went on to specialize in vocal music, composing a score for a musical comedy, a revue, a feminist anthem, which was her first published song, cabaret songs, and numerous art songs, most of them set to the poems of WB Yeats. She is known as a composer of art songs, published by Hildegard and American Composers Edition. She passed away at her home in New York City on Sunday, Feb. 26th, 2017.

 

 

 

 

  • ACE Publications

    3 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Joyce Hope Suskind CELEBRATION Solo Flute or Solo Violin
    Joyce Hope Suskind TWO YEATS SONGS Voice, string quartet, piano
    Joyce Hope Suskind WILD SWANS AT COOLE voice, string quartet, piano

    Additional Works