A trained classical singer inspired by The Great American Songbook, MAC Award winner Suzanne Carrico is bringing new energy & passion to Cabaret, setting the new "Standards" for her generation. Critics & audiences are falling in love with her take on yesterday's hits & tomorrow's classics.
Suzanne Carrico began her life as singer and an actress in Flint, Michigan in a local production of the Sound of Music. Suzanne has for some time been one of New York’s rising young opera singers, having performed twice as a Young Artist Fellow at the Caramoor Bel Canto Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. The victim of a high-priced education, Ms. Carrico holds a Bachelor of Music from Webster University College of Fine Arts in St. Louis, where she was awarded the Dysart Family Prize from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a Masters of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Suzanne spent a week exploring American Popular Song at the Sundance Institute with the Mercer Foundation working with the likes of Margaret Whiting, Melissa Manchester, Charles Strouse, Michael Rupert, Jimmy Webb, Billy Stritch and Don Rebic. This experience inspired Ms. Carrico to return to her roots in Musical Theatre and American Song as a "belter". Now working together with her Music Director Tedd Firth and Director Mary Cleere Haran; in 2007 Suzanne brought her cabaret show THE ART OF THE CAHN, featuring the Sammy Cahn songbook, to New York City's Triad Theatre & The Metropolitan Room, this show won her the 2008 MAC Award for Best Female Debut. Her follow up show, THE FRIENDLIEST THING won rave reviews, called "The Smartest Show about Sex or The Sexiest Show about Smarts".
In 2010 Suzanne is recording her first Studio Album WHAT CHRISTMAS-TIME MEANS TO ME, featuring The Don Rebic Quartet.
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