Workshop: These exciting and highly interactive workshops, entitled Classical Connections, use classical music as well as movement and literature as a gateway to concepts required by the California standards. Beth makes connections with these concepts in numerous ways reaching students with various learning styles including kinetic, linguistic, musical, bodily-kinetic, spatial/visual, intrapersonal and logical/mathematical.

Since receiving her Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the Juilliard School when she was 21, pianist Beth Sussman has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. Career highlights include solo recitals at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Gindi Auditorium in Los Angeles, The Ravinia Festival (summer home of the Chicago Symphony), and the Chautauqua Music Festival. She has also been guest soloist with the Juilliard Symphony at Lincoln Center.

Beth has been the winner of several piano competitions and was the recipient of the prestigious Charles Petschek Prize in piano at Juilliard for three consecutive years. Upon graduation at Juilliard, she was honored with the Maro Ajemian Prize in Piano. She has been performing her interactive assembly programs and workshops in schools for the past several seasons. In 2002, Beth was honored by the Centralia School District after donating her time for a performance to help emotionally heal the children of Centralia Elementary after a tragic accident. Beth recently released a CD featuring the piano music of George Gershwin. Paramount Pictures Television filmed a pilot loosely based on her life which was executive produced by Kelsey Grammer (Frasier). Beth was recently on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams in a story about volunteering, which featured her pro bono performances for children living in group homes and shelters.

Price:
$75 per 45-minute workshop plus possible planning fee. Minimum four workshops per day must be scheduled.

Age Group:K-12
Capacity:1 Classroom (maximum of 35 students, plus regular teacher)
Availability:Year Round

Teacher In-Service Price: $100/hour (2-hour minimum required), plus additional planning fee.
Capacity: 40 Educators

To design an arts education program with this artist, please call (213) 250-ARTS or email education@musiccenter.org.

Prices are for services between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.