Wartburg College music professor Dr. Suzanne Torkelson will serve as piano teacher at the 31^st annual Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival.

Torkelson will maintain a private studio, coach a small ensemble, and teach class piano at the music academy, June 24-July 22, at Luther College in Decorah. In addition, she will be a featured performer on the LSM Concert and Recital Series and serve as accompanist for student and faculty recitals.

Torkelson is one of 34 faculty artists at the residential music-training academy, which serves more than 150 student musicians, grades 8-12, from across the United States.

Torkelson, who teaches piano at Wartburg, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the University of Iowa, a Master of Music degree from Kansas State University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wartburg. She frequently performs nationally and internationally as piano soloist and chamber musician and is in demand as clinician and adjudicator, presenting sessions in pedagogy throughout the United States.
LSM students are selected through a competitive application and audition process. Piano students participate in a comprehensive curriculum that includes individual instrument lessons; a chamber ensemble; musicianship classes; symphony orchestra, band, or choir, and electives such as jazz improvisation, conducting, collegium musicum and more.