Boulder Concert Chorale/Chamber Chorale Pianist

Susan Olenwine earned both bachelor and master degrees in piano performance at Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Constance Keene and Artur Balsam. She had additional studies with Samuel Sanders at the Juilliard School. She holds a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

Ms. Olenwine has toured Europe with various choral ensembles. She has also been the featured soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, London’s Royal Philharmonic in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the United States Air Force Band at the Aalborg Music Festival (Denmark). In 2013, she served as the conductor for the Boulder Chorale’s tour to the Czech Republic and Poland. She has also performed concerti with various orchestras in Connecticut, has served as an orchestra pianist, as an opera rehearsal pianist, university staff pianist, and collaborative recitalist. She is the pianist for the Longmont Symphony and is on the faculty of the Center for Musical Arts in Lafayette.