Susan Pickett

Susan Pickett is a violinist, musicologist, and Catharine Gould Chism Chair of Music at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She has authored numerous books in musicology, including "Marion and Emilie Frances Bauer: From the Wild West to American Musical Modernism."

Pickett’s academic work has focused on women composers active from the 17th through the 20th centuries. She has edited over 40 music editions and contributed scholarly essays on historical women in music. Her book Marion and Emilie Frances Bauer: From the Wild West to American Musical Modernism examines the lives and work of two early 20th-century American composers.