Susan Botti

Susan Teresa Botti (born April 13, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, librettist, and soprano opera singer. Originally working in theater, she studied classical music at the Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, and she began a career in opera, with her work including Wonderglass (1993) and Telaio: Desdemona (1995). She has also performed as an opera singer for composer Tan Dun. Biography Susan Teresa Botti While in Boston, she studied jazz piano, percussion, and voice at Berklee, obtained her BM there in 1986, and was part of the Greek chorus in the American Repertory Theater production of Alcestis, directed by Robert Wilson. Botti has also collaborated with composer Tan Dun, particularly as a soprano performer. In a review of the 1997 New York City Opera performance of the Tan Dun opera Marco Polo, Justin Davidson of Newsday said that she “sang the role of Water with a voice that ran clear and sweet”. In 2001, she performed her own composition EchoTempo at Avery Fisher Hall; this was the first time a composition at a regular New York Philharmonic subscription concert featured its own composer as a vocalist. She was the 2003–2005 Danie