Page 17 - 2015 New Harmony Music Festival Program Book

Tom McDermott - Piano One of New Orleans’ premiere piano 2015 FESTIVAL ARTISTS
players and composers, Tom grew up in St. Louis, where he earned a
master’s degree in music, was a music journalist for the morning paper, and Tom McDermott
soaked up the sounds of ragtime and traditional jazz that flourished there in
the 1960s and ‘70s. In 1984, spurred by his love of James Booker, Professor
Longhair and Dr. John, he moved to New Orleans. He became a Duke of
Dixieland, touring Europe, Asia, South America and the U.S., with a stop
at Carnegie Hall.

Tom’s musical mastery stretches from the mid-19th-century works of
Louis Moreau Gottschalk to the funky New Orleans piano of today.
He has a great love of Brazilian music, the Beatles, European classical music,
early Duke Ellington, and much more.

Tom has written for the theatre (the Obie-award-winning off-Broadway
show, “Nita and Zita”), and appeared in bit roles in the movies (“He
Said She Said”). In the New Orleans-based HBO series “Treme,” he played
himself and lent his music to the soundtrack. His music has also appeared
in Showtimes’ “The Knick”, and has been heard frequently on a number of
NPR programs. He has recorded 13 albums.

mcdermottmusic.com

Susie Petrov - Piano, Accordion, Dance Master of Ceremonies Susie Petrov
After receiving music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory,
Temple University, and the Kodály Music Institute, Susie began studying
Scottish music and teaching schoolkids to sing and dance. She started
her first Scottish music ensemble, Local Hero, with Christopher Layer
and Paul Woodiel in 1990 and has appeared at dances, festivals and in
concerts in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France
and Scotland. Susie has given numerous workshops on Scottish music at
Pinewoods Camp, Ashokan Celtic Week and in towns from Saskatoon to
San Francisco.

Susie has appeared onstage at the Highland Circus Music Festival with
the Battlefield Band and Scots fiddler Alasdair Fraser in Ullapool,
Scotland, and tutored for the Feis na Gael summer music courses in the
northwest of Scotland and the Hebrides. She was a guest lecturer for the
Scottish Music course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland-Glasgow.
Ms. Petrov also presents workshops for the Organization of American
Kodály Educators conference. She is co-director of the Kodály Music
Institute at Boston University, and a music teacher in greater Boston,
with twelve recordings and two collections of Scottish music to her
publication credit.

susiepetrov.com

July 2015 <<< 16