Susan Lewis
Consulting ProducerSusan is a consulting producer for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series on WRTI, and contributes weekly intermission interviews with conductors and artists featured in the broadcasts.
In her more than 15 years at WRTI, Susan has interviewed a wide range of leading artists including conductors and composers: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Wynton Marsalis, Marin Alsop, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Christoph Eshenbach, Hannibal Locumbe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jennifer Higdon, Donald Nally, John Adams, Valerie Coleman, Mason Bates; instrumentalists and vocalists: Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, Itzak Perlman, Helene Grimaud, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sharon Isbin, Andre Watts, Mark O’Connor, Angel Blue, Lawrence Brownlee, Jason Vieaux, Sarah Chang, and groundbreaking ensembles, including Imani Winds, PRISM Quartet, LA Guitar Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and The Crossing, as well as people from the world of literature, theater and fine arts, including architect Frank Gehry, actors Dule Hill, Anna Deveare Smith, and playwrights Terry Teachout and the late Terrence McNally.
She has authored many stories about music and the arts for WRTI, and produced and was host of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series. She also hosted WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
Susan came to radio with a background in journalism, speechwriting, and law, which she practiced in New York City; she also taught entertainment law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. A former freelance writer and columnist for Philadelphia Magazine, she’s also the author of Reinventing Ourselves after Motherhood and a book of essays titled, What is a Kiss, Anyway?
She lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband, goldendoodle, and whichever of her four grown kids pop in to visit.
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Two exciting soloists, British cello sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason and South African soprano Pretty Yende, join The Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of Haydn and Mahler, alongside a world premiere by Xi Wang. -
Clarinetist Ricardo Morales and violist Choong-Jin Chang shine in Max Bruch's Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E Minor, on a program that also features Dvořák’s beloved Symphony No. 9.
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Join us on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Brahms, Holst, and Missy Mazzoli from the 2022/2023 season.
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Nicholas McGegan conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Friederic Handel and Jean-Fery Rebel, with featured organist Paul Jacobs.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s contract at The Philadelphia Orchestra has been extended through 2030. He talked with WRTI's Susan Lewis about the news, and his bond with a city that loves him back.
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Italian pianist Beatrice Rana joins The Philadelphia Orchestra and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to perform Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, on a program with Florence Price's Third Symphony and Ravel's orchestral suite 'Le Tombeau de Couperin.'
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In a program spanning Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, and selections from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, the common denominator is love.
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Join us as The Philadelphia Orchestra, with guest conductor William Eddins and featured soloist Hilary Hahn, deliver a program of Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson.
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Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in waltzes by Ravel and Strauss, and rising-star violinist Randall Goosby performs two concertos by composer Florence Price.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem for Unity and Dvořák's Symphony No. 8. In between, pianist Daniil Trifonov is featured in Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
