Three Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Russell Platt has composed works for the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Knights, the flutist Molly Barth, the tenor Paul Appleby, and the bassoonist Peter Kolkay. He has won both a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and, in 2023, a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He has composed at Yaddo, Copland House, and Civitella Ranieri. He teaches at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Susan Nowicki has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and in collaboration with prominent singers and instrumentalists, and she regularly performs with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition she has toured with Community Concerts under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. and has served on the music staffs of the Philadelphia Singers, Opera Philadelphia, and Opera Festival of New Jersey.

An active member of the Network for New Music ensemble, she has recorded contemporary music for the Albany, Capstone, De Haske, and North-South labels.

Ms. Nowicki teaches privately in Philadelphia and in Lawrenceville, N.J., and was a faculty member of the Dorothy Taubman Institute of Piano from 1997 to 2002. She is an instructor and clinician for the Well-Balanced Pianist programs.

Ms. Nowicki joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1987.