Susan Roe’s radiant soprano voice has been heard throughout California, the Northwest and the East Coast with chamber music ensembles, in oratorio and opera festivals. She has soloed with the Inland Empire Symphony and Master Chorale, the Pasadena Chorale and Orchestra, the Redlands Symphony, the Riverside Master Chorale, the Monterey Bay Chamber Orchestra, the Cabrillo Opera Festival and the Bach Aria Festival in New York.
In 2007, Ms. Roe had the pleasure of performing with Dewey Ehling and the Peninsula Singers. She is delighted to have the opportunity once again to work with Maestro Ehling in his role as conductor of the Port Townsend Orchestra.
Ms. Roe made her international operatic debut in the role of Musetta at the Cairo Opera House in 1996 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s LaBohème.
Reviewers of Ms. Roe’s operatic performances praise her “impressive vocal gift, which she uses with beauty and subtlety” and attest that she is “as effective an actress as she is a singer.” Other credits include performance fellowships awarded by the Gluck Foundation (2002-2005), a recital funded by the Riverside Arts Foundation and several performances of Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah, funded by a California State University grant-award, in which she was recognized for “Excellence in Theatre.”
In 2004, Ms. Roe earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to performing, she has taught at the University of California, Riverside, UCLA and California Baptist University, Riverside.
(April 2012)