Susan Bruckner

Susan Bruckner is a pianist and teacher with degrees from from the Eastman School of Music, the New School for Music Study in Princeton, NJ, and the San Francisco Conservatory. She has done extensive research on learning styles and brain research pertinent to musicians, giving workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her teachers include Frances Clark, Louise Goss, Estelle Pavia, Blair Cosman, Jerome Lowenthal and Paul Hersh. Susan is author of the book The Whole Musician. Ms. Bruckner currently is head of the piano department at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz CA and performs regularly with the Santa Cruz Chamber Players. She taught for 16 summers at the Ithaca College Healthy Musician Workshop. Susan is known especially for bringing new perspectives to the field of music teaching and her workshops lend a creative, fresh approach to many time-worn topics.