Announcements, blog posts, and media appearances.
April 17, 2025
Upcoming event Saturday March 1st, 2025 4:00 PM at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. With Rollo Dilworth , Artistic and Music Director; Northeast High School Choir, Patricia Betcher, Director; Teen Voices of the City Ensemble (T-Voce). Whitney Covalle, Di...
December 18, 2024
Suzzette Ortiz & Diana Sáez featured as guest artists for The Washington Chorus' A Candlelight Christmas concert. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Join The Washington Chorus in celebrating the 15th Anniversary of its annual “A Candlelight Christmas,” ringing in the holiday season with joy,...
August 14, 2024
I am excited to share the stage once again with Mark Beecher on drums , Rubin Edwards on bass and Jon Katz on sax this coming Sunday August 18th, 2024 at the 21st Jazz and Art Festival in Morrisville, PA. This event is sponsored by the Michael F. Sherlock Foundation . I am dedicating this performanc...
July 10, 2024
I'm so excited about our performances this week! Join us!
July 9, 2024
It’s been a week since I return from Sharon Katz and the Peace Train short tour. I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with her as well as such wonderful and powerful musicians! ( Jan Jeffries, Bassist Richard Hill Jr., Wendy Quick) . I reconnected with wonderful people like Pat Wictor as wel...
June 6, 2024
Join us this evening!!!
Friday June 7th, 2024 Our students have work very hard and tonight we will experience the fruit of their labor!
March 7, 2024
Pianist Suzzette Ortiz proudly hosts “Jazz in the Wood,” First Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 Collings Ave, Collingswood, NJ 08108. Showtime is 7:30-9:00 pm. Tickets: $15 in advance ($20 at the door). Students $5 and children under 12 FREE!
Artists aren’t...
February 23, 2024
VANCOUVER, WA — The Clark College Concert Choir and Chamber Choir under the direction of Dr. Jacob Funk, present their Winter Concert on Saturday, March 16, 2024, 7:30 pm at First United Methodist Church, 401 E 33rd St, Vancouver, WA. The admission is free and open to the public. Donations to the...
April 29, 2017
Suzette Ortiz & Diana Sáez explore Latin-America’s nueva canción or trova, and its musical ancestry. Love songs or protest songs? Cuban Silvio Rodriguez, Chilean Victor Jara, many others, share poetic lyrics, indigenous rhythms, and a rich heritage with their romantic-pop songwriter predecessors: en...
September 21, 2015
CAMDEN Suzzette Ortiz remembers a promise she made to her students before retiring.
"I promised them that any time a possibility comes my way, I will somehow include them."
So when Ortiz, a former concert choir director for The Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy, shows up at the Benjamin Frank...
January 16, 2013
The other day as I was cleaning and organizing my library I came across a small bible that I used to carry around in my youth. When I picked it up a little paper with 7 wishes fell on the floor. I had written these wishes over 30 years ago. As I read each wish I realized that I never saw any of th...
January 7, 2013
There are a lot of jazz players out there who for gotten tired of waiting for some label to record them and take decided to do it themselves. Philadelphia's Suzzette Ortiz, who has been laboring in the trenches for the past two decades, took it upon herself to record her own music. The Puerto Rican-...