Leo serves as Managing Director (and faculty member) for Summertrios, an annual series of transformative workshops for adult chamber musicians of all levels.
Performing and teaching as a faculty artist at the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival.
Leo performs various programs as an artist in residence with the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival in Maryland from August 14–22.
Show 2 of 2 – Leo Sussman (flute) and Cameron Pieper (piano) perform a faculty & friends recital at Lucy Moses School. No tickets required!
Like a Forbidden Song weaves together a patchwork of contrasting musical expressions of hope, resilience, and resistance in the face of oppression. Featuring works by Jorge Amado, Rosy Wertheim, Mieczysław Weinberg, Béla Bartók, and Olivier Messiaen.
Show 1 of 2 – Leo Sussman (flute) and Cameron Pieper (piano) perform a private house concert in Greenwich Village. Contact me for the address if you’d like to attend!
Like a Forbidden Song weaves together a patchwork of contrasting musical expressions of hope, resilience, and resistance in the face of oppression. Featuring works by Jorge Amado, Rosy Wertheim, Mieczysław Weinberg, Béla Bartók, and Olivier Messiaen.
Private house concert outside Trumansburg, NY – contact me for the address if you’d like to attend!
Leo Sussman performs a program exploring the depiction of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Claude Debussy, Luciano Berio, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
Show 2 of 2: An original chamber opera recounting the extremely factual origin story of Old Greeny, Cayuga Lake’s beloved cryptid, at the Ithaca Fringe Festival. Created and performed by Breakfast Calculus = Teagan Faran + Leo Sussman.
Tickets: https://oldgreenyfringefest.com/events/the-ballad-of-old-greeny/
Show 1 of 2: An original chamber opera recounting the extremely factual origin story of Old Greeny, Cayuga Lake’s beloved cryptid, at the Ithaca Fringe Festival. Created and performed by Breakfast Calculus = Teagan Faran + Leo Sussman.
Tickets: https://oldgreenyfringefest.com/events/the-ballad-of-old-greeny/
Breakfast Calculus (Teagan Faran & Leo Sussman) share a 10-minute preview of The Ballad of Old Greeny along the Fringe Fest parade route!
Performing chamber works by Kaija Saariaho and Julian Bennett Holmes on a program featuring sopranos Anne Dorothy Harley and Stacey Fraser
Breakfast Calculus (Teagan Faran & Leo Sussman) will share a 10-minute preview of The Ballad of Old Greeny alongside previews of five other stellar acts.
Unticketed; food and drink available for purchase!
Performing the premiere of a new work by Matias de Roux for bass/baritone and Pierrot ensemble on a program celebrating the multifarious compositional protégés of Nadia Boulanger
A fun and supportive opportunity for young musicians to explore and compose their own graphic scores, a type of visual notation that promotes musical creativity and improvisation (no prior experience required)!
Performing Elliott Carter’s Scrivo in vento for solo flute on a program celebrating the multifarious compositional protégés of Nadia Boulanger
Performing with Teagan Faran on her Middle Child album release tour in San Francisco
A fun and supportive opportunity for young musicians to explore and compose their own graphic scores, a type of visual notation that promotes musical creativity and improvisation (no prior experience required)!
Leo Sussman presents a lecture-recital exploring the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Luciano Berio, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
A community gathering to celebrate the centennial of Italian composer Luciano Berio through an evening of musical performances, interactive installations, and (yes!) birthday cake. Doors at 7:30.
Featuring Teagan Faran (violin/viola), Asher Wulfman (violin), Hannah Soren (cello), Leo Sussman (flute), and students from Ithaca College.
Leo presents a talk on his research about the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s 2025 Festival of Monsters conference.
Leo Sussman presents a lecture-recital exploring the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Luciano Berio, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
Performing with Teagan Faran on her Middle Child album release tour at Chicago’s newest chamber music venue
Performing with Teagan Faran on her Middle Child album release tour in Ann Arbor, MI
New music in the cantorial tradition for two voices and chamber orchestra by Jeremiah Lockwood, composed for/performed by Riki Rose and Yoel Kohn and conducted by Alan Pierson.
Killdeer Trio and Breakfast Calculus (a duo project of Leo Sussman and Teagan Faran) split the bill at Ithaca’s favorite subterranean venue!
Leo performs various programs as an artist in residence with the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival in Maryland from August 15–24.
Performing a wide range of repertoire on several concerts as a faculty artist at the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival.
Performing a range of chamber and improvised works in collaboration with Teagan Faran and others at the Greencastle Summer Music Festival.
Family-friendly immersive performances in Prospect Park May 3!
Experiential Orchestra is excited to bring Brad Balliett's Field Guide to Imaginary Birds for two rounds of performances on May 3 (rain date May 4) in Prospect Park, from 1-2pm and 3-4pm. This event is FREE.
Meet starting at 12:45pm at the Picnic House, where directions and a "Field Guide" will be handed out. Six musicians will be spread throughout the forest in Prospect Park – take a stroll through the woods and try to discover them all!
Leo Sussman presents a lecture-recital exploring the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Assaf Shatil, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
Music of the Spirit: Solace in Our Time
The music of György Kurtág and Sofia Gubaidulina, both now in their 90's and two of the most acclaimed composers of the last fifty years, share an intensity in their work that reveals a beauty based on struggle and the necessity to communicate. Both are hermetic composers who offer poetic and ultimately cathartic visions of sound, and the performance will take advantage of the beautiful acoustics and space of Sage Chapel. Please join Ensemble X for this musical balm. Performers include Misha Bjerken, Xak Bjerken, Richard Faria, Guillaume Pirard, Annette Richards, Elizabeth Simkin, Leo Sussman, and Diego Vásquez.
Performing works by Carlos Simon and Abby Swilder on Teagan Faran’s album release show, featuring a double bill with tonguetide (a solo project of Swidler’s).
Leo performs Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute and Pierre Boulez’s Sonatine for flute and piano on a program curated by Tina Deng honoring the centennial of both composers. Program also includes Arnold Schönberg’s Phantasy Op. 47 for violin and piano, Berio’s Sequenza VIII for violin, and Berio’s Six Encores for piano.
Leo Sussman, flute
Jisu Choi, violin
Tina Deng, piano
Performing a scrumptious assortment of solo and chamber works with violinist Teagan Faran and pianist Calvin Hu, paired with a delectable five-course dessert tasting menu designed and prepared by acclaimed Bay Area pastry chefs Jimmy Wong and Samantha Ho. Curated by Calvin Hu.
