Susan Dantoni & Cecilia Guerra 🇺🇸 USA

Pianist & Soprano

Susan Dantoni is a pianist, music director and collaborator in the Rochester, NY area. Originally from Staten Island, NY, she has performed extensively in musical theatre, classical performance, vocal and instrumental accompanying and liturgical venues. She is currently completing a degree in piano performance at Roberts Wesleyan University where she is the current Presser Scholar.  She will be pursuing a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano at the Townsend School of Music in the fall.  She is artistic and music director for “Into the Unknown-An Opera Theatre Adventure” at RWU this spring and was the music director and accompanist for Cosi Fan Tutte (RWU)last spring; she is also the current music director for The SpongeBob Musical (Main Street Players) and was the music director for Newsies (Main Street Players); the  Spongebob Musical and 13 the Musical at MJTS (Stages).; other favorite credits include music director/pianist for the RWU theatre production of For $ale; music director/ keys 1 for Rent (Stages); music director/keys 1 for 13 the Musical (Lyric Voices/ Fringe Festival); music director and pianist for Fairy Tale Ending and the Twelve Dancing Princesses (Main Street Players/Fringe Festival.  She is the organist/pianist for the Rochester Christian Reform Church. Susan is the winner of the 2021-2022 RWU Concerto Competition and performed as soloist with the Roberts Symphonic Orchestra in March 2022. She resides in Pittsford with her husband and daughter. When not behind the piano, she can be found working as a physician for the IMA Group.

Cecilia Guerra is a soprano from Portland, Maine. As a Sophomore Vocal Performance Major, Cecilia has recently placed 4th in the 2023 Eastern Regional NATS and was a finalist in the Civic Morning Musical Competition. Cecilia has performed most recently as Elvira (/ Puritani) in Roberts Wesleyan University's Opera Scenes, Dickon in RWU's Secret Garden. She has also recently performed as a soloist for Jazz and Dessert, The Rochester Opera Guild's Valentine's Day Concert, and in her sophomore recital. Over the summer, she will perform with the Robert's Chorale as they tour the Salties as well as participating in Totus Tuus, a theology teaching program. In her free time, she enjoys anything involving the arts from plays and musicals, writing, and composition.