Suzanne Martens
Suzanne Martens has been appointed as violin lecturer at the US Department of Music and started lecturing in the beginning of the third term of 2002. Suzanne studied music at the University of Pretoria under Prof Alan Solomon, where she obtained the BMus Performers (cum laude) and BMus Hons (cum laude) degrees. She was concertmaster of the UP Symphony Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. Suzanne has been awarded several prizes, including the University of Natal 75th Anniversary Prize and the overall first prize in the ATKV Forte Competition. In 1991 she was part of the winning trio in the Oude Meester Chamber Music Competition. Suzanne furthered her studies in Holland under Jan Repko (Academie Minerva, Groningen) and in Austria under Lavard Skou-Larsen (Mozarteum, Salzburg). In Salzburg she was a member of the Salzburger Musici Chamber Orchestra. As soloist, Suzanne has appeared with all the major orchestras in the country. She is an active chamber musician who appears regularly in different ensembles, including the Rosamunde Quartet and the Allegri Trio. Suzanne is also an active violin teacher and taught at the University of Pretoria from 1996 to 1999. Until June 2000 she held the position of Associate Concertmaster in the now defunct New Arts Philharmonic Orchestra Pretoria, and was a founder member of the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. In June 2001, she was appointed concertmaster of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. Suzanne is married to well-known cellist, Peter Martens, and they have two daughters.
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