Susan Kagan is a concert pianist and musicologist, recently retired from Hunter College, where she taught music history. A Beethoven expert, her doctoral dissertation explored Archduke Rudolph (Beethoven's patron, pupil and friend), and she is currently recording the complete sonatas of Beethoven disciple Ferdinand Ries for Naxos records. She is founder and past president of the American Beethoven Society, New York Chapter. As a pianist, she has recorded works of Beethoven, Archduke Rudolph, Ferdinand Ries, Grieg, Mendelsohn and Bargiel. She also performs regularly with the ensemble Colleagues in Concert, and is an active reviewer for Fanfare Magazine.

Latest Recording: Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas (Complete), Vol. 1 - Opp. 11, 45 Susan Kagan, piano Naxos Records - 8.570796