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Susanna Porte

holds a B.Mus. in Cello Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, a B.A. with Honors in Russian from Oberlin College, an M.A. in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Teaching Certificate in Music from Carnegie Mellon University. She also studied at the California Jazz Conservatory. For over 35 years she has performed in orchestras and classical chamber groups around her hometown of Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Susanna was a co-founder (with fellow Obie Rebecca Thornblade) of the Boston-based Cello Chix, an electric-cello-and-drums band that featured her original arrangements of rock and pop tunes. She has played under Bernstein’s baton, toured with The Magnetic Fields, and subbed with Le Jazz Hot, Duo Gadjo, and Quartet San Francisco. Since March 2020 Susanna has hosted over 149 porch & driveway concerts, showcasing local classical and jazz musicians and bringing the community together. She divides her time between performing, music arranging, proofreading, and engaging in many unpaid hours of environmental activism.

She has studied with David Finch, Andor Toth, Jr., Mark Summer, Mads Tolling, Eugene Friesen and Evan Price.