Susan Toman is a versatile and engaging musician who has performed since her earliest years, first as a pianist, and now primarily as a harpsichordist. Prize winner at the 2007 Brugge International Harpsichord Competition, she has received numerous scholarships and grants for her musical studies. She holds a Doctorate from McGill University and a Masters from the University of Michigan.
As a chamber musician Ms. Toman has appeared at the Bloomington Early Music Festival and the Rochester Early Music Festival, among others. In Montreal, she has performed with ensembles such as Notturna, Serenata St.Jean, and the Tarantella Baroque Ensemble. In the past, she presided over both the Ann Arbor Academy of Early Music and the London Early Music Festival.
Recent projects include the founding of the Mont-Royal Baroque Collective, along with tenor David Menzies. Their first production will be in April 2012 -- Rameau's opera-ballet "Pygmalion."
Ms. Toman frequently gives lecture-recitals, workshops, solo concerts, and masterclasses across Canada and the US, engaging audiences in discussions of historical context, instrument construction, and elements of expressive keyboard playing. She has served on faculty at the University of Regina, and currently teaches online courses for Greenville College (IL).
One of her passions is French music of the baroque, which can be heard on her recording of Rameau’s Nouvelles suites de clavecin, released in 2008 by Centaur Records.