Susan Day

Susan Day currently resides in Littleton, Colorado. She is a string teacher and composer, and has been a violinist with the Arapahoe Philharmonic for over 20 years. Her educational background includes a B.S. from Ithaca College, and an M.A. in Music Education from Columbia University in New York, where she studied piano with Robert Pace.

Ms. Day has been a string educator in Colorado for over 26 years, at all levels, and is presently teaching at Eagle Ridge Elementary in Douglas County. Her award winning middle school orchestra (Cresthill Middle School Orchestra) was chosen to perform at the CMEA Convention six times. They were also the only middle school orchestra in the nation chosen to perform at the 1998 MENC Biennial Convention in Phoenix. In 2000, she received the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award" from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) of Colorado.

Original compositions by Ms. Day have been performed at conferences for MENC, CMEA, the Midwest Band/Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, and numerous local and national honor orchestras, festivals, contests, and summer music camps. In 1997, she won the ASTA sponsored composition contest for her string bass duet, "Bass-ic Blues for Two". The piece was recorded by Gary Karr and premiered at the Eastman School of Music String Symposium in 1999. Most recently, Ms. Day was the winner of the 2006 Texas Orchestra Directors Association (TODA) Composition Contest for her piece "Tango d'Amour", published by Alfred Music. Some of her works are self-published, (www.SMHDMusic.com). Many of her works are now being published by Grand Mesa Music Publishers and Alfred Music Publishers. She is a member of MENC, CMEA, ASTA, the String Industry Council of ASTA, ASCAP, and is in the 2006-7 Who's Who of American Women" and 2007 "Who's Who in the World."

Susan Day is the winner of the 2008 Merle J. Isaac Composition Contest for her string orchestra composition titled "Shores of Ireland." Also, In January of 2008, Susan Day was inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) Hall of Fame.