Biography
Suzanne Lehrer serves as a faculty member of the Westminster Conservatory Piano Department and the Honors Music Program. She also runs a successful independent piano studio in Princeton. Ms. Lehrer teaches private lessons, chamber music, and group piano classes to students of all ages. She prepares her students to have a love of music, competence with music reading and interpretation of the piano repertoire, and helps her students develop performance skills.
At Westminster Conservatory, Ms. Lehrer coaches chamber music and teaches performance classes for the Honors Music Program. She directs the Westminster Conservatory Piano Camp and participates in faculty recitals.
Ms. Lehrer also serves on the faculty at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine, where she teaches piano, coaches chamber music, serves as an accompanist for students, and performs in faculty recitals.
Currently the Arts Advocacy Chairperson for the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, Ms. Lehrer coordinates the annual Children Helping Children Perform-A-Thon, a benefit for HomeFront’s Joy, Hopes and Dreams Program in Trenton, New Jersey.
Ms. Lehrer graduated from Westminster Choir College of Rider University with a Master of Music in Piano Performance. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in piano and a minor in English Literature from the University of Rochester. As part of her undergraduate education, she studied classical and jazz piano at the Eastman School of Music.
With an interest in furthering her understanding and knowledge of management, organizational structure, diversity, and equity within organizations and communities, Ms. Lehrer recently completed a Master of Social Work with a focus on Management and Policy at Rutgers University.