Susan Borwick is Professor of Music at Wake Forest University, a member of the Associated faculty of the Wake Forest University Divinity School, and an ordained minister. At Wake Forest since 1982, Borwick earned a BM/theory and composition and a BME/vocal music, both at Baylor, and the PhD/musicology with an informal minor in music theory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at Wake Forest, she has chaired the Dept. of Music for 12 years and directed the Women's Studies Program for 4; served as President of the University Senate; and been awarded the Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Outstanding Service (Sept. 2009). Before Wake Forest, she was an assistant professor/theory and musicology at the Eastman School of Music (1977-82)and an assistant professor/music history and theory (1972-77) and coordinator of the division of music history, literature, and church music (1976-77) at the Baylor School of Music.
Some awards: Top 5% in teaching effectiveness at Baylor University. One of nine outstanding music graduates, Baylor School of Music 75th anniversary. Composer-in-residence, Knollwood Baptist Church. Guest composition panel, University of North Texas, November 2009. Presenter at the Parliament of the World's Religions: Melbourne, Australia 2009; Barcelona, Spain 2004. Composition residency, Wildacres Retreat 2007. Women's studies residency, University of New Mexico 2006. Women-and-music residency, Baylor University 1993. Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Music, and the International Who's Who in Music. Interviews on National Public Radio, Swedish National Radio (All-European coverage). Guest lecturer in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America on spirituality and the arts, twentieth-century music, women and music, women and violence, theory pedagogy.
Borwick is published in Opera Quarterly, Music Library Association Notes, The Society for American Music Journal, Bulletin of the Society for American Music, Journal of Thought, Journal of Musicological Research, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, Proceedings from Women in Higher Education: Traditions, Transitions and (a few) Revolutions, Southeast Women's Studies Bulletin, National Association of Schools of Music Newsletter. Nationally published composer of solo vocal, choral, instrumental music by MorningStar Music Publishing (Top Ten Best Selling Choral Anthems 2009), Treble Clef Music Press, Hope Publishing. Original compositions featured at The Riverside Church, NYC; the American Choral Directors Association 50th-anniversary national convention 2009; by California All-State Honors and New York State All-State Honors Choirs 2009; in university concerts and theatrical productions, and venues from Washington state to the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southern U.S. Pianist and accompanist featured in performances of original compositions and arrangements throughout the Eastern, Southern, and Southwestern U.S. Musical collaborator with Dr. Maya Angelou.
International Alliance for Women in Music board secretary (2009- ), National Women's Studies Association Program Administration and Development Council (2000-2004) and chair, the PA&D Leadership and Mentorship Committee (2000-2004); founder, the NWSA Contemporary Curriculum Transformation Project: Multiplicities of Identities. Past president and honorary life member, the North Carolina Association of Music Schools. Former chair, Committee on the Status of Women, American Musicological Society; former officer, Southwest Chapter of the AMS; College Music Society (life member); Society for American Music; International Alliance for Women in Music; Music Library Association. Reader for national presses, e.g. The University of Texas Press, the NWSA Journal.
Board member and officer, Baptist Women in Ministry, North Carolina. Former board member, Trinity Center: An Ecumenical Center for Counseling, Spiritual Formation, and Education; The North Carolina Alliance of Baptists; long range planning committee of the Piedmont Chamber Singers.