Susan Narucki, Donald Berman

American soprano Susan Narucki is among her country's leading specialists in contemporary music, having performed in more than 100 world premieres in the fields of opera and concerto. She has worked with some of the world's top composers and has also been active in small-ensemble works. Narucki was born in 1957 in Bellville, New Jersey. Her father, a Polish immigrant, was a silversmith for the Tiffany jewelry firm in New York. Narucki attended Syracuse University, majoring in film and photography, but she decided to switch to singing and enrolled at the San Francisco Conserva...