Susanne made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2017 with the New England Symphony singing the Pie Jesu from Fauré Requiem and Soprano solos in John Trotta’s The Seven Last Words of Christ and returned to Carnegie Hall to sing the Soprano solos in Jubilate Deo and Requiem for the Living by Dan Forrest. Earlier that year, she made her international debut as Anna in ​Le Villi and Lauretta in ​Gianni Schicchi with the Festival of the Aegean at the Megaron Mousikis in Athens and Syros Greece after joining Des Moines Metro Opera as Berta in The Barber of Seville and their production of Flight by Johnathan Dove. 

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Ms. Burgess has also won a number of post-graduate awards and grants for operatic excellence  from the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Theater  Pittsburgh,  Jensen Foundation, and the National Federation of Music Clubs.    

In June of 2013, Ms. Burgess graduated, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Music from the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music. During her time at university, Susanne was awarded a Full-Tuition Operatic Merit Scholarship as well as the Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence. While enrolled in the prestigious opera program, under the direction of world-renowned bass, Kenneth Cox, Susanne performed many fully staged and orchestrated roles such as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus (Lamont) and performed Soprano Solos in the Denver Symphony Orchestra Performances of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and Elijah.

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