Susan Bengtson Price is a passionate performer and music educator. A native of Richland, Washington, Susan’s musical career has led her across the nation and the globe, performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. In May 2022, Susan became the KAIA String Quartet's violist. During the 2021-2022 season, Susan also performed regularly with Camerata Chicago. From 2018 to 2021, she served as Michelle LaCourse’s teaching assistant at Boston University as a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate. In the summer of 2021 and 2022, Susan taught at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute as LaCourse’s Viola Workshop assistant. While completing her doctoral coursework, Susan performed as a violist in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, taught nonmajor undergraduate violists at Boston University and coached nonmajor chamber ensembles.  From 2016-2018 Susan earned her master’s degree in viola performance from Northwestern University while serving as Helen Callus’ graduate assistant. During the 2017-18 season, she performed as a violist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and in 2018 toured China and Hong Kong as assistant principal violist of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. In support of broader access to music education, Susan taught strings for Sistema Ravinia during her studies Susan completed her undergraduate studies with Jeffrey Irvine at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating with academic honors with a Bachelor of Music in 2016. As the first violist to participate in an exchange program between CIM and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, she also studied with Tim Frederiksen in Copenhagen in 2014. Susan plays a Douglas Cox viola provided by a scholarship grant from the Virtu Foundation.