Susan Lewis Hammond grew up in Toronto, and undertook professional training in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She holds an MFA and Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University (2001), where she completed a dissertation titled “Collecting Italia Abroad: Anthologies of Italian Madrigals in...
Susan Lewis Hammond grew up in Toronto, and undertook professional training in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She holds an MFA and Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University (2001), where she completed a dissertation titled “Collecting Italia Abroad: Anthologies of Italian Madrigals in the Print World of Northern Europe.” Between 1993 and 1995 she earned a Master of Music with a specialization in musicology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. There she honed her research skills with a thesis on “Chi soffre speri and the Influence of the Commedia dell’arte on the Development of Roman Opera.” Her undergraduate degrees are from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), where she completed a Bachelor of Arts (1993) with concentrations in music and political science, and a Bachelor of Music (1993) with a specialization in piano performance. She spent her third year (1991–92) at the University of Glasgow, where she studied political theory and international relations, while continuing piano studies at the University of Edinburgh.