Pianist Susan Manoff studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Oregon. She performs regularly at festivals and venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Oji Hall in Tokyo and the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna. A love for the theatre has inspired her involvement in the creation of numerous programmes blending music and text.
Susan Manoff has recorded for labels such as Naïve, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin, Arion, Valois and Aparté. In 2007 she released Évocation, the first of three CDs with Sandrine Piau, featuring works by Chausson, Strauss, Debussy, Zemlinsky, Koechlin and Schoenberg. Après un Rêve, including songs by Strauss, Fauré and Britten, followed in 2011 on Naïve. Her other discs include Beethoven violin sonatas with her long-term musical partner Nemanja Radulović and La Belle Excentrique with Patricia Petibon. Néère with Véronique Gens was released in 2015 on Alpha Classics and received a Gramophone Award the following year. Chimère, her most recent CD with Sandrine Piau, appeared in 2018 and won the Diapason d’Or de l’année and the Choc Classica de l’année, as well as being nominated for a Victoire de la Musique.
Susan Manoff was assistant chorus director at the Paris Opéra and is currently a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
She gives masterclasses around the world and is devoted to exploring the relationship between singer, pianist, composer and poet.
