Faculty Profile

Degrees

BA, Swarthmore Coll

Bio

Susan Jolles, harpist, has enjoyed a long and varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, teacher and arranger.  A founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Jubal Trio, she also appears with daughter, Renee, violinist, as the Jolles Duo.  Ms. Jolles is a member of the American Composers Orchestra, Musica Viva, Queens Symphony Orchestra and The Little Orchestra Society, and is associate harpist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.  Past affiliations include the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, The Group for Contemporary Music, The New York Chamber Symphony, and The Juilliard Ensemble.  She also appears regularly with the Encores Orchestra.

Ms. Jolles has been associated with contemporary music since receiving a Fromm Fellowship in contemporary music performance in 1963.  She has premiered and recorded the works of such composers as Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, George Crumb, Charles Wuorinen and Philip Glass.  She has also commissioned many composers for the Jubal Trio and Jolles Duo.

Susan Jolles has an extensive discography that encompasses a full range of musical genres including classical, klezmer, jazz, cabaret and Broadway, recording with such diverse artists as Giora Feidman, Kenny Garrett, James Galway and Barbara Cook.  She has recently recorded five albums of original flute and harp music with flutist Laurel Zucker.

An ongoing project is the publication ion Baroque keyboard music for harp. Great attention is paid to a proper Baroque style. Music by Handel, Rameau, and Zipoli are published by Gotham Harp Publishing. Ms. Jolles also has published arrangements of Debussy for oboe or flute and harp(International) and a Mozart Sonata  for flute for harp(Theodore Presser).

Ms. Jolles is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music  and Hofstra University. She teaches  classical harp as well as orchestral repertory and chamber music.

Ms. Jolles has been associated with contemporary music since receiving a Fromm Fellowship in contemporary music performance in 1963.  She has premiered and recorded the works of such composers as Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, George Crumb, Charles Wuorinen and Philip Glass.  She has also commissioned many composers for the Jubal Trio and Jolles Duo.

Susan Jolles has an extensive discography that encompasses a full range of musical genres including classical, klezmer, jazz, cabaret and Broadway, recording with such diverse artists as Giora Feidman, Kenny Garrett, James Galway and Barbara Cook.  She has recently recorded five albums of original flute and harp music with flutist Laurel Zucker.

An ongoing project is the publication ion Baroque keyboard music for harp. Great attention is paid to a proper Baroque style. Music by Handel, Rameau, and Zipoli are published by Gotham Harp Publishing. Ms. Jolles also has published arrangements of Debussy for oboe or flute and harp(International) and a Mozart Sonata  for flute for harp(Theodore Presser).

Ms. Jolles is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music  and Hofstra University. She teaches  classical harp as well as orchestral repertory and chamber music.

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