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Full Bio
Short Bio SUSAN HAIG Conductor / Creative Director Full Bio Hailed for ‘imaginative and spirited conducting’, and ‘superb communication with musicians and audiences alike’, Susan Haig is a conductor and cultural leader dedicated to connecting the broadest public to music and the arts. Her work throughout Canada and the U.S. has included orchestral and opera conducting, coaching, producing and broadcasting. She is currently Creative Director of New Jersey Arts News, a nonprofit arts news source for television newscasts. Haig has served as Music Director of Canada’s Windsor Symphony and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Florida Orchestra, and Resident Conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Formerly a coach and assistant conductor with the Canadian, Santa Fe, and New York City Opera companies, she has conducted opera performances in Toronto, Ottawa, Madison, London (Ont.) and Victoria, British Columbia, as well as hundreds of orchestral educational concerts for students of all ages. Maestro Haig has been invited to guest conduct many of North America’s finest ensembles, including the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Detroit, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Minnesota and Vancouver. She has collaborated with leading soloists such as Andre Watts, Jon Kimura Parker, Edgar Meyer, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Sharon Isbin, Mark Nuccio, Robert McDuffie, Erin Wall and Russell Braun. Since 2007, Haig has been involved in producing short-form arts news features, and in establishing New Jersey Arts News, a media project hosted by the Community Foundation of New Jersey. She has conducted numerous state-wide and national broadcasts in the US and Canada, served as guest host for the daily morning show broadcast nationally on CBC Stereo, and worked ‘back-stage duty’ during Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts. Her interest in cultural broadcasting was sparked in the 1960s by the CBS-NY Philharmonic Young Peoples Concerts, Biography with Mike Wallace, and The 20th Century with Walter Cronkite. Dr. Haig has been a passionate spokesman on cultural citizenship, the civic role of orchestras, and public arts education through the media. She currently serves as a trustee of the National Music Museum and VP of programming for the International Women’s Forum—New Jersey chapter, and is an affiliate of Princeton’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. A champion of new music, Haig has conducted numerous world premieres, and was founder of the annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival. Her awards have included the Heinz Unger (national) Conducting Award, Canada 125 Citizenship Award, the Mayor’s Award for the Arts, and selection for the League of American Orchestra’s National Conductor Preview. She was voted 2006 Music Educator of the Year in Tampa, received keys to the cities of St. Petersburg and Windsor in recognition of her cultural leadership, and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from the University of Windsor. Ms. Haig was born and raised in Summit, N.J., graduated from Princeton University—where she was a University Scholar—and received Master's and Doctoral degrees in piano and conducting from Stony Brook University. Her training included piano studies with Martin Canin and Isabelle Sant’Ambrogio, viola with Lillian Fuchs, coaching with Martin Smith, and conducting with Gustav Meier, Paul Vermel, Arthur Weisberg and Edoardo Muller. SUSAN HAIG Conductor / Creative Director Short Bio Hailed for ‘exceptional musicality, imaginative and spirited conducting, and superb communication with musicians and audiences’, Susan Haig has served as Associate Conductor of the Florida Orchestra, Music Director of Canada’s Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and Resident Conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Her guest-conducting throughout North America has included the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Detroit, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, New Jersey and Ottawa, and opera performances in Toronto, Ottawa, Victoria, Madison, and London, Ontario. Since 2007, Haig has been involved in producing short-form arts news features, and in establishing New Jersey Arts News, a nonprofit arts news source for television newscasts. She has conducted hundreds of educational concerts and numerous state-wide and national broadcasts in the US and Canada, served as guest host for the daily morning show broadcast nationally on CBC Stereo in Canada, and worked backstage during Live From Lincoln Center telecasts. Recognized as a passionate advocate of public access to the arts, Dr. Haig serves as a trustee of the National Music Museum (SD), and VP of Programming for the New Jersey Chapter of the International Women’s Forum. She was voted 2006 Music Educator of the Year in Tampa, and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from the University of Windsor. Ms. Haig was born and raised in Summit, NJ, majored in Music (Theory and Composition) at Princeton University, and received MM and DMA degrees in piano and conducting from Stony Brook University. She served as assistant conductor and coach with the New York City, Canadian, Juilliard and Santa Fe Opera Companies, and has performed as a pianist, violist and vocalist. |
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