Suzanne Gekker

Suzanne Gekker is an active classical and jazz performer in the Washington, D.C. area. Originally from New Orleans she received music degrees from Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music and Yale School of Music. Her primary teachers include David Shifrin and Carmine Campione. In her professional career she has played with the Cincinnati Symphony, Ballet and Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, American Symphony and Broadway Shows. In the DC area she performs regularly with Washington Concert Opera, Washington National Opera, National Cathedral, National Philharmonic, Embassy Series and Alexandria Symphony. Suzanne also plays with local Trad. and Gypsy jazz groups including the Hot Club of DC, in bistros, restaurants and Warrior Café in Bethesda. She has recently toured the U.S. with the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra and plays on their latest recording. In addition to performing in dozens of historical opera houses with Peacherine, Suzanne Gekker has played in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, Strathmore Hall, Lincoln Center, National Cathedral, Preservation Hall in New

Orleans, Trinity Church, St. John the Divine and The Players Club in New York, Cincinnati Music Hall and Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, and the Neil Simon and Schubert Theater in New York.