"...a light, horn-like tone...strong scat chops..." —NYC Jazz Record

"[Her] singing possesses a kinetic swing that is incompletely harnessed, and that is a good thing. Hear 'Better Than Anything'.”—All About Jazz

“Like a bullet through jello.”—D.C. City Paper

Vocalist Suzanne Lorge has three decades of performing experience on global stages, among them Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Radio City Music Hall in her hometown of New York City. She’s also contributed to scores of albums, animated films, and commercials as a lead, guest, or backup singer. In addition, she’s recorded two solo albums, Wild Birds (2016, 2020 re-release) and Dark Sky, Waiting (2023).

While her primary mode of musical expression is contemporary jazz, over the years she’s worked across several genres. Notable collaborators include jazz pianists Frank Kimbrough, John DiMartino, and David Budway; celebrated operatic tenor Francisco Casanova; rock guitarist Paul Reed Smith; and award-winning television and theater composer Lanny Meyers.

When not singing, Suzanne writes about music, culture, and business. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR.com, Huffington Post, The Washington Times, and Institutional Investor magazine. She writes features and reviews regularly for Downbeat magazine and a monthly column on vocal jazz for The New York City Jazz Record.

Through her work as music journalist, Suzanne has interviewed some of her most admired performing artists: Glenn Close, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Jon Batiste, Carla Bley, Kurt Elling, Darcy James Argue, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norma Winstone, and Vijay Iyer, among others. For the curious, she reprints these articles on her website blog, Five Music Minutes—a quick hit of musical goodness in five minutes or less.  

Suzanne holds a BA in Modern Languages & Literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; an MA in Music Performance & Composition from New York University; and a Music Marketing Specialist certificate from Berklee College of Music. For more information about Suzanne's writing, visit her online portfolio at Clippings.me.

Other notable honors:

• Suzanne spent 10 years as a playwright and actor with the Meisner Playwrights Lab at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City, led by celebrated writer Mary Humphrey Baldridge.  

• She work-shopped the title poem for her first album at the Bread Loaf Orion writers conference under the tutelage of poet/essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming.

• Former Metropolitan Opera star Sylvia McNair and Broadway composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa both labeled Suzanne’s lyrics to "Better Than Anything" as “impressive” when she performed as a quarterfinalist in the 2017 American Traditions Competition.