Efficiency and effectiveness are the keys to a productive rehearsal. I will share many tried & true approaches from my 37 years of teaching experience that led to Outstanding Band Programs in two different districts.
Anthony Susi
- Biographical Information
Anthony Susi has been teaching music in
Connecticut schools at the middle, high school and collegiate level since
1985. He often serves as a guest
conductor at honors band festivals for elementary, middle and high school
musicians throughout his native state as well as in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. Mr. Susi has presented numerous
state conference workshops and contributed articles for publication in CMEA, Bandworld, MEJ, and SBO on
music pedagogy. He has also been invited frequently to adjudicate
both jazz and concert band festivals in Connecticut and serves as an
adjudicator for Fantastic Festivals & CMEA.
His performing ensembles have been featured many times at CMEA and MENC
Eastern Division Conferences and have earned Superior ratings and top honors at
adjudication festivals throughout the Eastern states.
Mr.
Susi’s diverse experience as a band director and adjudicator has provided him a
unique understanding of the aesthetic appeal and technical needs for
compositions written at various age levels.
This is evident by the number of commissions he receives each year from
elementary, middle and high school band and string orchestra directors since
1998. Some of his works have been finalists in national composition contests
(2023 American Prize and Grand Mesa Music 2021 & 2023),
featured at Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic (2018, 22 & 23) and
noted in The Instrumentalist
magazine, JW Pepper’s Editors Choice,
Stanton’s 5 Star Feature the Top 100 lists by Bandworld magazine and the CT Chapter of ASBDA.
Outside of music education, Mr. Susi has also composed and recorded
seven CDs of original music in a variety of genres that have been featured on Best
of CT compilation discs and the soap opera, As the World Turns. In addition to composing and teaching, he is
an active solo artist on guitar, keyboard and vocals, performing regularly at
several establishments around his home state.