Susana Naidich

Susana Naidich (1932 – 4 January 2023) was an Argentine singer, musicologist, phonologist, voice teacher, and speech-language pathologist. She was the founder and first president of the Argentine Society of the Voice.

Early years and education Naidich was born in Buenos Aires. She studied at National Direction of Culture (Buenos Aires, 1949–50), University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna, Austria, 1950–52), Collegium Musicum (Salzburg, Austria, 1951), Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, US, 1954–56), and Longy School of Music of Bard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954–56).

She made her singing debut at the age of 17 at the School of Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. While studying in Vienna, she performed in the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Georg Solti.

Career After returning to Buenos Aires, she joined the cast of Teatro Colón, performing under the direction of Karl Böhm, Erich Kleiber, and Jean Martinón, among others. Simultaneously, she appeared as a soloist in other symphonic venues. In the United States, she sang in various festivals, including Tanglewood and Boston, accompanied by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. In 1963 and 1964, she worked in Israel, performing in concerts with orchestra and on camera.

In 1967, while she continued her performance activities, she began to teach classes (private and institutional) in voice, sung and spoken, vocal technical elements for voice (without forcing the vocal cords), rehabilitation of functional problems (disfonías) related to organic (nodules, polyps and edemas) or by bad technical training, erroneous vocal classification (in singers) and abuse of the voice. In 2002, she sang black spirituals and works of George Gershwin in duet with her daughter Alisa Kaufman in a popular music show called Verdadero Encanto in the Centro Cultural Borges.

Naidich speaks and writes in English, French, Italian, Hebrew and Portuguese. as well as various publications on speech pathology.

Notable students

Norma Aleandro Amelita Baltar Graciela Borges Soledad Pastorutti (singer) Susana Rinaldi (tango singer)

Discography Source: 1970: you Sang of mother. Madrigal Records 1974: Life and love of woman. Madrigal Records Susana Naidich: Gluck, Mahler, Ravel. Kol Israel, recorded live in Jerusalem (Israel) Susana Naidich: nanas, Gershwin, Of Fail, black spirituals Susana Naidich: Schumann, Brahms, Wolf. Recordings in LRA Radio Nacional, in Buenos Aires Recordings in Municipal Radio, in Buenos Aires