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Music
that Speaks to Us and Through Us
by Susan Salm
We, performing artists, have an obligation to play the music that
speaks to us and through us. My dedication is to music that I love.
This includes Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms,
Schumann, Dvorak, Janacek, and also many newer works – of Webern,
Bischof, Koston, Florey. Our responsibility to the listeners is
to bring them in the most convincing way, and at the highest level
of performance, works we believe in – of all times, of yesterday
and of today.
I believe in supporting the music I admire and love, and I revel
in bringing to life for the first time works that otherwise did
not exist and might never have been composed!
To present new music honestly and convincingly I include it in programs
with standard repertoire. Composers of the baroque, classical and
romantic period are essential to my musical and artistic existence;
I adore the music of Beethoven and Brahms and feel sure that they
would have wanted to be heard in the context of the great compositions
of our age. Works being written during my lifetime (and sometimes
because of my commitment to them and their composers) are just as
much essential in the life of music, in the lives of those who will
hear more as we go on, and who will benefit from having the opportunity
and the experience of hearing new with old, great with great. We
need not make distinctions based on when music was written, but
rather develop a strong and unyielding discipline to learn to discriminate
between and about quality and to find what has true value, originality
and honesty. This can best be attained by engaged and informed listening,
and to that end the best means remains the engaged and informed
performer.
Works written for and premiered by Susan
Salm
- Rainer Bischof - "Mutationen" for solo cello
(1996)
World Premiere at the Music In Ouray Festival, Ouray, CO, 1998
- Wolfgang Florey - "Sonata for Cello Solo"
(1998)
World Premiere in Eghezée, Belgium, 1999
- Dina Koston - "Solo for Cello" (2001)
World Premiere at Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 2002
- Wolfgang Florey - "Farbenhaut" for violin
and cello (2002)
World Premiere in Venice, Italy 2002
- Wolfgang Florey - "Denksteine" for violin,
cello, piano and mezzo-soprano (2002)
World Premiere in Venice, Italy 2002
- Rainer Bischof - "Epigramme" for solo cello
(2005)
World Premiere at the Austrian Cultural Forum (ACFNY), New York
City, 2006
- Laura Kaminsky - "Isole from the Arcipelago delle
Delizie" for solo cello (2006)
World Premiere at the Austrian Cultural Forum (ACFNY), New York
City, 2006
- Wolfgang Florey - "Im Augenspiegelblick, A Capriccio
after Hoffmann in eight short scenes for Cello Solo" (2007)
World Premiere at the Austrian Cultural Forum (ACFNY), New York
City, 2008
Works written for and premiered by the Raphael
Trio
- Dina Koston - Piccolo Trio
- Rainer Bischof - "Trio 89"
- Thomas Oboe Lee - "Tangos"
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