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Susan Fancher is known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations. A much sought after performer of new music, she has inspired and premiered dozens of new works for saxophone. In her most recent projects, she has championed a new repertoire of concertos for soprano saxophone. She has also served as soprano saxophonist of some of the world's top saxophone ensembles: the Red Clay, Amherst, Vienna and Rollin' Phones quartets. Susan Fancher has performed in many of the world's leading concert venues and contemporary music festivals including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sala São Paulo in Brazil, Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Filharmonia Hall in Warsaw, Orchestra Hall in Malmö, Sweden, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, ISCM festivals in Albania and Bulgaria, the Gaida Festival in Lithuania, June in Buffalo, California State University at Sacramento's Festival of New American Music, the University of Richmond's Third Practice Festival, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Society of Composers, Inc. concerts, the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, SEAMUS Festival, Southern Exposure new music series at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, Hörgänge and Wien Modern Festivals in Vienna, and on CBS Sunday Morning. Tours have taken her to Albania, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and throughout the US. Susan Fancher studied saxophone with Michael Grammatico, Frederick L. Hemke and Jean-Marie Londeix. She is a regularly featured columnist for the online journal Saxophone Today, an artist clinician for the Vandoren and Selmer companies and is on the faculty of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her recent release on the Chen Li Music label is entitled Hawk: The Saxophone Music of Stuart Sauders Smith, which can be found at Amazon, iTunes, Spotify and other fine music distributors. Please follow the link to read recent review of Hawk from the Jan/Feb 2016 issue of Saxophone Today.