Dr. Susan Lemei is a recently retired family physician. Prior to medical school, she received a BM in Music History from the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific. Graduate study began in Ohio at Bowling Green State University where she was a student of Ivan Hammond. She later transferred to the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and received her Masters in Music History and Criticism. While In Baltimore, she performed widely with a specialty in brass quintet and small ensemble literature. The Imperial Brass Quintet played throughout the Baltimore-Washington area and was a selected participant in the International Brass Quintet Festival competition. Eventually realizing that she had additional gifts to offer (and needed a much better day job), she prepared herself for medical school and matriculated at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. There was a necessary musical hiatus of 13 years, only resuming regular playing upon her arrival in Vermont in 2004. She is a member of the Windham Philharmonic and the Keene Chamber Orchestra, the Monadnock Brass Quintet, and plays with several other musical groups in the region. Since 2017 she has been the director of the Brattleboro American Legion Band and has been on the board of the Brattleboro Music Center since 2018.