About

Suzanne Lorge has been singing and writing professionally for more than thirty years.

Her singing has taken her around the world, though some of her favorite projects were presented at her hometown’s most iconic venues—Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Radio City Music Hall. She has also contributed to scores of albums, animated films, and commercials as a lead, guest, or backup singer. In addition, she’s recorded three solo albums, Wild Birds (2016, 2020 re-release); Dark Sky, Waiting (2023); and Connections/Znajomości (2025).

While her primary mode of musical expression is contemporary jazz, over the years she’s worked across several genres and with many fantastic leaders, among them jazz pianists Frank Kimbrough, John DiMartino, and David Budway; celebrated operatic tenor Francisco Casanova; rock guitarist and luthier Paul Reed Smith; and award-winning television and theater composer Lanny Meyers.

When not singing, Suzanne writes about music, culture, and business. Her work has been published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Huffington Post, The Washington Times, and Institutional Investor magazine. She writes features and reviews for Downbeat magazine and authored a monthly column on vocal jazz for The New York City Jazz Record for 15 years. She also contributed the chapter, “Carla Bley: The Voice,” to The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings, published by the Jazz Journalists Association on Cymbal Press in 2024.

Through her work as a music journalist, Suzanne has interviewed some of her most admired performing artists: Glenn Close, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Samara Joy, Loufey, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Christian McBride, Jon Batiste, Carla Bley, Kurt Elling, Darcy James Argue, Maria Schneider, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norma Winstone, and Vijay Iyer, to give just a sample. For a more comprehensive glimpse at Suzanne's journalistic writing, visit her online portfolio at Clippings.me.

Suzanne holds a BA in Modern Languages & Literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; an MA in Music Performance & Composition from New York University; and a professional certificate in Music Marketing from Berklee College.

Other Cool Stuff

• Suzanne spent 10 years as a playwright and actor with the Meisner Playwrights Lab at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City, led by dramatist Mary Humphrey Baldridge.  

• She work-shopped the title poem for her first album at the Bread Loaf Orion writers conference at Middlebury College under the tutelage of poet/essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming.

• Former Metropolitan Opera star Sylvia McNair and Broadway composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa both labeled Suzanne’s lyrics to "Better Than Anything" as impressive when she performed as a quarterfinalist in the 2017 American Traditions Competition.

• Her first time ice skating at Rockefeller Center was as a background actor in the Nora Ephron film, You’ve Got Mail (scene subsequently cut).

• Her first cover story for Downbeat magazine, “Terri Lyne Carrington: Transform The Culture,” in 2019, was submitted for an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award.

Selected Discography

• Connections/Znajomości (Wild Birds Media)

• Dark Sky, Waiting (Wild Birds Media)

• Wild Birds (Wild Birds Media)

• Female Mystix (Fynsworth Alley)

• Prime Time Musicals (Concord)

• Cinderella (Concord)

• Night of the Hunter (Concord)

• The Window in the Wall (Atlantic Records)

• Strange Meadowlark: Songs of Dave Brubeck (Lanny Meyers Music)