Belarca Records

06/14/2024

Much of the music heard on William Susman’s albums is available in sheet music. Music publisher Universal Edition recently posted a feature in both German and English. You can check it out here…

William Susman ist ein amerikanischer Komponist, der für seine markante Stimme in der zeitgenössischen klassischen Musik bekannt ist. Er hat ein umfangreiches Werkverzeichnis, das Orchester-, Kammer- und Vokalmusik sowie zahlreiche Filmmusiken umfasst. Als Leiter des Ensembles OCTET und von Belarc...

06/02/2024

This little feature …

William Susman ist ein amerikanischer Komponist, der für seine markante Stimme in der zeitgenössischen klassischen Musik bekannt ist. Er hat ein umfangreiches Werkverzeichnis, das Orchester-, Kammer- und Vokalmusik sowie zahlreiche Filmmusiken umfasst. Als Leiter des Ensembles OCTET und von Belarc...

04/05/2024

It’s Bandcamp Friday and our albums are available for Name-Your-Own-Price starting at $2.00 each!

Plus, all MERCH is on-sale at 50% off using this promo code below including scores and CDs and signed CDs:

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Many thanks for your support and happy Bandcamp Friday!

https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/

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03/01/2024

It’s Friday!!! To celebrate, we want you to NAME YOUR PRICE for our album “MUSIC FOR MOVING PICTURES” or any of our other digital downloads. They are all on sale for !!!

17 track album

03/01/2024

Friday, March 1st, from midnight to midnight Pacific time is Bandcamp Friday. That's in about an hour!

To celebrate we have a very special promotion...

NAME-YOUR-PRICE for 24 HOURS on ALL our albums starting at $1.00 for digital downloads!!!

William Susman is a composer and pianist. His music has earned praise from Gramophone as “texturally shimmering and harmonically ravishing,” from Fanfare, "crystalline . . . and gloriously lyrical,” and The New York Times, “vivid, turbulent, and rich-textured.” Textura describes Susman as ...

02/25/2024

In the past, we offered a few complimentary promo codes for our albums . We are trying something new… NAME-YOUR-PRICE starting at just $1.00… ENJOY!

17 track album

02/25/2024

In the past, we have offered complimentary promo codes for our albums . We are trying something new… NAME-YOUR-PRICE starting at just $1.00… ENJOY!

17 track album

02/22/2024

You can enjoy our latest release available - MUSIC FOR MOVING PICTURES - with our "name-your-price" promotion! Check it out here:

02/14/2024

You can follow us at Bandcamp for the latest news and some amazing deals coming up on our albums. We have recorded with many world renowned Grammy® award-winning artists!!!

William Susman is a composer and pianist. His music has earned praise from Gramophone as “texturally shimmering and harmonically ravishing,” from Fanfare, "crystalline . . . and gloriously lyrical,” and The New York Times, “vivid, turbulent, and rich-textured.” Textura describes Susman as ...

02/12/2024

In celebration of our release MUSIC FOR MOVING PICTURES we are offering a special NAME-YOUR-PRICE promotion for the digital download of the album.

You can enjoy the album here!

17 track album

02/04/2024

Hope you can join in this Monday evening for a listening party at 8pm PT.

Listening Party from William Susman.

01/09/2024

Checkout this interview on Classical Conversations - NPR affiliate WGTE radio FM 91, Toledo Ohio - with host Mary Claire Murphy and composer William Susman talking about the album Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC.

In his latest album, William Susman performs selections from his monumental piano series, Quiet Rhythms. The acclaimed pianist/composer speaks with Mary Claire Murphy about the recording, which was captured live at the music venue Spectrum in New York City.

12/12/2023

Rhonda Rizzo of the blog No Dead Guys interviews William Susman about his new album. Many thanks for the insightful questions and remarks…

There’s music that creates outside stillness, and then there’s music that leads the listener to find quietness within. Quiet Rhythms is the latter. This beautiful collection of short piano pieces blends stillness and movement, simplicity and complexity, light and darkness—all offering musical ...

12/06/2023

Many thanks to Hilary Seabrook of the popular podcast Harmonious World for reviewing our new album Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC

“… beautifully lyrical …”

https://hilaryseabrook.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-selection-of-quiet-rhythms-performed.html?m=

A selection of 'Quiet Rhythms', performed by the composer Monday, December 04, 2023 William Susman, who I have interviewed for Harmonious World once in 2020 (episode 16) and once in 2021 (episode 31), has released a new album. This time, he brings thirteen tracks from Quiet Rhythms Book 1 and Book 2...

11/16/2023

Follow and DM us! We will DM you with a Bandcamp promo code of our new album, “Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC.”

“… mesmerising music …”

-Interlude

13 track album

11/12/2023

Many thanks to Interlude for the brilliant review of our latest release!

Composer William Susman records his own monumental solo piano cycle.

11/10/2023

A big thanks to Interlude for reviewing our album Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC.

“… a haunting and subtly powerful performance …”

“… profoundly expressive …”

Read the full review here:

Composer William Susman records his own monumental solo piano cycle.

11/10/2023

Many thanks to textura for reviewing our album Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC.

“… basking in the wave-like resonances …”

Read the full review here:

American composer William Susman began working on the piano music for Quiet Rhythms in 2010, never anticipating it would grow into four volumes, each one comprising eleven “Prologues” and eleven “Actions.” One reason he created the material was to have music he could perform in concert, which, a...

10/16/2023

Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC just released on Spotify.

The canvas videos by Valeria Di Matteo are simply stunning and add an unusual dimension.

In the midst of the chaos, perhaps music can be a momentary balm, a prayer, a form of tikkun olam.

William Susman · Album · 2023 · 13 songs.

10/06/2023

Join us Monday, October 9th for an online listening party via Bandcamp to celebrate the upcoming release of our new album Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC. There will be a chat room to "mingle."

You can RSVP in the link below!

START TIMES
Los Angeles 9:00 pm
Chicago 11:00 pm
New York City Midnight
London 5:00 am 10/10
Paris/Rome/Berlin 6:00 am 10/10
Helsinki 7:00 am 10/10
Tokyo 1:00 pm 10/10

Listening Party from William Susman.

09/10/2023

Preview stream and pre-order Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC. Releases October 16th! Music by William Susman.

Belarca Records: New Composers from Around the World

08/07/2023

This Sunday at 3pm at the Montgomery Theatre in San Jose, I’ll be joining on piano the great vocalist Ronit Widmann - Levy at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. I’ll be on the second half of her show and we’ll be performing a set from the American Songbook. It should be a blast!

Ronit Widmann-Levy is a versatile artist equally at home on both concert and opera stages. She has sung in opera houses and festivals in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Tanglewood, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Berlin, Munich, London, Bangkok and Jerusalem. She has performed at the Ravinia Festival in C...

08/03/2023

On a cold winter night in Lower Manhattan, tucked amid a row of old New York walk-ups on Ludlow Street, one second story loft window glowed a warm yellow light…

13 track album

07/30/2023

We are delighted to announce that our latest album is available for pre-order at Bandcamp! The album features William Susman performing selections from his series Quiet Rhythms recorded live at Spectrum NYC

13 track album

02/05/2023

First performed and recorded by the extraordinary Rome-based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi, Camille (2010) was given its US premiere by the brilliant musicians of the Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival.

Lauren Scanio, Flute
Kurt Cox, Saxophone
Nathan Southwick, Violin
Nicco Mazziotto, Cello
Nicole Brancato & Jonathan Mak, Piano
William Susman, Composer

Tyler Neidermayer & Nathanael Moffat, Sound Engineers
Toby Winarto, Videography
Nicole Brancato & Dudley Raine IV, Festival Directors

To learn more about Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival, check out our website https://www.sevenhillscmf.org

Performed live at Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival 2022 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia on the second concert "Vitality, Tranquil...

01/29/2023

Checkout artists such the Rome-based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi, Vanessa Wagner, Octet Ensemble, Erika Tazawa, Nicolas Horvath, Karen Bentley Pollick, and more!

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