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 Susan Robinson is the principal harpist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, a position she has held since 1995. She also serves as the principal harpist of the Boston ‘POPS' Esplanade Orchestra, with whom she has toured the Far East and the US. An avid performer of chamber music, Susan performs and records with the Washington, D.C.-based 21st Century Consort, and the Boston-based ensemble Walden Chamber Players. She and her husband, violinist Joseph Scheer, are the founders of IBIS, and Susan is featured on 2 IBIS CD releases: "Souvenir: Music for Violin and Harp", and "IBIS x 2" on which she performs the Handel Concerto for Harp in Bb and the Debussy Danses Sacre et Profane.
A native of Boston, Susan performs with the Boston Symphony as often as her schedule permits. Previously, Susan served as the acting principal harpist of Tampa's Florida Orchestra and the Sarasota Opera Festival.
Among Susan's solo engagements are performances of Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (with KCOHO principal flutist Adria Sternstein and the Opera House Orchestra under Heinz Fricke) and with the Virginia Chamber Orchestra (with the National Symphony's Aaron Goldman on flute and Emil de Cou conductor.) Susan has also soloed with the Indian Hill Symphony, the New Hampshire Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Chamber Orchestra, and the Dedham (MA) Choral Society.
Susan is a graduate of Harvard University with a cum laude degree in Art History and French Literature. She also holds an Artist Diploma in Harp Performance from the Boston University School for the Arts, where she was a student of Lucile Lawrence. She and Joseph are the parents of Lillie and Nathanael.
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