B.A. (Music Theory and Literature, magna cum laude), Seattle Pacific University; M.A. (Music History); Ph.D. (Historical Musicology), University of Southern California

In addition to teaching music history that emphasizes contemporary and experimental music, Dr. Suzuki is also active in the music community, locally, nationally and internationally. He is working on a book detailing the evolution of American Minimal music and its relation to contemporaneous movements in the arts. He produces and hosts "Discreet Music," a weekly radio program featuring new, ambient, world, experimental, and unusual music on KPFA-FM in Berkeley. As a music critic and journalist, he regularly contributes to several publications, including Wired, Pulse, Musicworks, Audion, and Goldmine, among others. Dr. Suzuki serves on the Board of Directors for the Paul Dresher Ensemble/Musical Traditions. He also researches, writes about, and lectures on inter-media arts genres including Text-Sound Composition (Sound Poetry) and Sound Sculpture. He co-edited Boabab, the cassette journal of Sound Poetry, and in 1999 delivered a paper titled "Minimalism in American Text-Sound Composition" at the First International Congress of Polypoetry and Seventh Barcelona Polypoetry Festival in Spain.