Susanna Klein is assistant professor of violin and coordinator of strings at Virginia Commonwealth University. She performs regularly with VCU’s Richmond Piano Trio and enjoys focusing on chamber music performance at VCU. She is co-director of The Orchestra Project, an intense chamber and orchestra camp that runs every summer in Richmond, Virginia and is a regularly featured artist at Loon Lake Live!, a chamber music festival in upstate New York.

Ms. Klein served as principal second violin of the Richmond Symphony for five years. Previous orchestral appointments have been with the Colorado, Memphis, Vermont and Rhode Island Symphony Orchestras. She has been a member of two string quartets — Artist-in-Residence with the Oberon String Quartet at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Va. and violist with the Seneca String Quartet in Boston, Mass.

She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from VCU and Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she was a student of Roman Totenberg. Her love of chamber music has taken her to festivals all over the world: Tanglewood, Mass., Spoleto Festival Italy, Shira Festival Israel, Kneisel Hall, ME and Scotia Festival Canada. Susanna can be heard on the CDs of One Ring Zero, Modern Groove Syndicate, Klavier label Chamber Music Series, and Loon Lake Live Chamber Series.

Klein can be heard regularly on radio and TV spots including the PBS Series “The Retirement Revolution.” In 2008, she was the featured soloist for nine performances with the Richmond Ballet in Chausson’s Poeme.