Canadian harpsichordist Susan Toman holds this year's fourth prize from the Brugge International Harpsichord Competition. She has been featured at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the London Early Music Festival, and is the harpsichordist with Montreal-based ensembles Tarantella and Dionysos, the latter of which won second prize at the 2007 Montreal Baroque Competition. Currently finishing a Doctorate in Harpsichord Performance at McGill University, Montreal, she focuses on French music of the eighteenth century.
Ms. Toman holds a Masters degree from the University of Michigan in Keyboard Instruments where she specialized in harpsichord, piano, and fortepiano. She has worked primarily with harpsichordists Edward Parmentier, Luc Beausejour, and Hank Knox. Attendance at early music workshops, such as the Baroque Performance Institute of Oberlin, Tafelmusik’s Institute in Toronto, and an early music course in Portugal, have given a broad spectrum to her training and have allowed her to work with musicians from around the world.
Ms. Toman is also the recipient of several grants, including one from the Canada Council. Her most recent project, just completed in Germany, was a recording of Rameau’s Nouvelles suites de clavecin, which is to be released by Centaur Records in April 2008.
copyright 2008, Susan Toman
