Susan Lani Dahlberg
Susan Dahlberg currently lives in Jupiter, Florida. Originally from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, she had a private piano studio in Houston, Texas for 26 years. During this time, she taught piano on the staff at Rice University for 6 years and was the pianist at Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church for 10 years. She has also taught students from the High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston who have won awards and scholarships.
Susan is a former president of the Houston Federation of Music Clubs and was recently made an honorary member of this group. She has been the vice president of the Houston Music Teachers Association where she was in charge of planning programs and finding competition judges, and has also served as the treasurer for this large group. She was nominated for the Teacher of the Year award in 2010. She has given performances and presentations to the Houston, Bay Area, and Pasadena Music Teachers Associations, and has judged many festivals and competitions in and outside the Houston area. In Florida, she has judged three scholarship competitions at University of Miami and for both the Palm Beach and Boca Raton Music Teacher Associations. She was also invited to perform on the concert series in Juno Beach. She has been vice president of programs for the Palm Beach County Music Teachers Association and is currently vice president of membership.
Susan has toured with the Kamakura Chamber Orchestra in Japan, playing solo, chamber, and orchestral music. She also toured in the Czech Republic, including Prague, with solo and chamber music. Most recently, she performed the Mozart d minor and Rachmaninoff c minor piano concertos with an orchestra in Houston.
Susan earned her Master's degree from the University of Texas, where she was a graduate teaching assistant for 3 years under the direction of Amanda Vick Lethco and Martha Hilley, while continuing in the doctoral program in piano performance. She studied with Dr. Nelita True at the University of Maryland, where she earned her Bachelor's degree and was the recipient of the Senior Outstanding Pianist Award. She also won the Friday Morning Music Club Concerto Competition with a performance with orchestra at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C.
During the summers, Susan attended the Aspen Music Festival as a scholarship student of John Perry and studied with Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio at Indiana University. She also attended DePauw University in Indiana on a performance scholarship, where she won the concerto competition her freshman year and performed with the DePauw Symphony Orchestra.
Susan performed in and organized concerts for the Clear Lake Chamber Music Society. She was a featured artist in the Palm Beach County Council of the Arts bimonthly magazine and performed in the subscription series at the Norton Museum of Art there.
Susan also enjoys sprint triathlons, scuba diving, photography, and marine mammal and wildlife rehabilitation. She is blessed to have her husband of 7 years, Bill Brocker.
