Anthony Susi

Anthony Susi is a lifelong CT Music Educator with experience teaching grade 4 through college students. He is a frequent guest conductor for honor band festivals for elementary, middle and high school musicians throughout his native state as well as in MA and RI. He has presented numerous conference workshops/podcasts and contributed articles for publication in CMEA, Bandworld, MEJ, and SBO on music pedagogy. His performing ensembles have been featured many times at CMEA and MENC Eastern Division Conferences and have earned Superior ratings and top honors at adjudication festivals throughout the Eastern states.

Mr. Susi has over 60 compositions published for Concert, Marching, and Jazz Bands as well as Orchestra. He also serves as an Adjudicator/Clinician for CMEA & Fantastic Festivals (Inspire). Some of his works have been finalists in national composition contests (2021, ’22 & ’23) and featured at the Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic (2018, 22 & 23) and noted in The Instrumentalist magazine, JW Pepper’s Editors Choice, Stanton’s 5 Star Feature and the Top 100 lists by Bandworld magazine and the CT Chapter of ASBDA.

Outside of music education, Mr. Susi has also composed and recorded seven CDs of original music in a variety of genres that have been featured on Best of CT compilation discs and the soap opera, As the World Turns. In addition to composing and teaching, he is an active solo artist on guitar, keyboard and vocals, performing regularly at several establishments around his home state.