Susan Ager-Breitbarth

Susie Ager grew up in Olympia, Washington, and studied with Helen de Pastel Pagels. She joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1978 after playing in the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony (as a substitute), Grand Teton Festival Orchestra and Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Cincinnati. At the University of Puget Sound, where she earned a bachelor's degree in music, she received the Marjorie Heritage Music Award and studied with Edward Seferian. She was awarded a full scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is on the DSO Young Strings faculty and has been very active in the recording industry, chamber music ensembles and private teaching. She and her husband, Brad Breitbarth, have two sons in college and a basset hound named Waldo.