Susan Morton Blaustein is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and studied piano and composition at Pomona College with Karl Kohn, graduating with a B.A. in 1975. She continued her studies in composition at the Liege Conservatory in Belgium with Henri Pousseur and at Yale with Jacob Druckman and Betsy Jolas. After completing her education, she took a position as assistant professor at Columbia University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Susan Blaustein
Discipline:
Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
Studios
Irving Fine
Susan Blaustein worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…