Susanna Garcia is the Coordinator of Keyboard at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she teaches piano, piano pedagogy and lectures in the interdisciplinary humanities program.

Dr. Garcia has presented workshops and papers on a variety of topics for the College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, National Association for Humanities Education, Louisiana Music Teachers Association and a host of state music teacher groups. Her work has appeared in such publications as 19th Century Music and Interdisciplinary Humanities.

Garcia has performed concerts across the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Italy, and Ghana. Concert reviews praise her "impressive technical skills and musical communication in performance" and her "remarkable critical insights into music." In 1998, Garcia, along with pianist William Chapman Nyaho, released the first complete recording of Aaron Copland’s two-piano works on Centaur Records.

Dr. Garcia holds the Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the Bachelor of Music from Texas A&M at Corpus Christi, Texas. She is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she has taught since 1990. Dr. Garcia holds the Ruth Stodghill Girard Endowed Professorship in Music and in 2001, was named a University of Louisiana Distinguished Professor.

Nyaho/Garcia Duo CD tracks:
"Variations on a Shaker Melody" by Aaron Copland
"Danzon Cubana" by Aaron Copland