Conductor Susie Bechasil Seiter, who specializes in orchestra pops and film score conducting, discuss systematic gender bias, barriers, and her experiences touring with bands around the world!

Susie Benchasil Seiter is a prolific conductor, orchestrator and composer for film, television, video games, and live concerts. Susie currently stays busy conducting Live to Picture shows with venerable symphonies, orchestrating various projects  and her first co-written Netflix limited series is due out this fall.

Seiter is best known for orchestrating and conducting the remarkably successful orchestral concert tours The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses and Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions. Combined, these tours have been performed more than 300 times by some of the world’s most respected orchestras. In 2017-2018 alone, she conducted over 80 orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic at London’s Apollo Hammersmith, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Madison Square Garden, the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap, and the Sydney Symphony at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Seiter excels in leading popular symphonic film concerts such as Frozen Live, Muppets Christmas Carol, Pixar in Concert and Mary Poppins Live. She recently completed a 120 city worldwide orchestra tour as conductor and music director for multiple Grammy-winning band Evanescence and Billboard Music Award winner and YouTube sensation, Lindsey Stirling. Last year she conducted the Paramount blockbuster hit Snake Eyes: A GI Joe Origin Story and Netflix’s holiday favorite 8-Bit Christmas. She is excited to appear this summer with Toy Story Live and Nightmare Before Christmas live in various cities. Susie also likes to boast that she conducted the recording to Zombieland 2 at Capitol Studios nine days after giving birth.

Originally from Baltimore, Seiter now calls Los Angeles home, where she lives with Chad and their sons Samuel and William.

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