Suzanne Bona, flute Suzanne Bona was born in Bridgeport, CT. where she had an old upright piano in her childhood home. Nobody took lessons, but her mom would play it occasionally, and so would she. Both her parents loved music -- particularly big Romantic era orchestral works and operas. Suzanne earned a Bachelor of Music degree from The University of Connecticut in flute performance, and continued private flute studies at Yale University with Thomas Nyfenger. She started in radio in 1987 at WSHU in Fairfield when she was still pursuing a performance career, but the "radio bug" bit and became a pivotal part of her life and career. she was underwriting director and learned radio as a weekend board operator till WSHU's program director told her to "play Baroque music" on Sunday mornings for 90 minutes between two network programs. Sunday Baroque was born. She became program director in 1988, and stayed there until 1996, when she became producer/music director for WGUC Cincinnati. In 1998, NPR syndicated Sunday Baroque, and she left to work on the program full time. My "typical day" at WGUC occurs literally just once a week, when I record Sunday Baroque. I bring the 12-14 pages of music playlists, research and scripts and give copies to engineer Bruce Ellis, who follows along as he records me in WGUC's studio. I spend the rest of my week listening to Baroque cd's, entering the information into my database, assembling a music playlist for the show (usually about 3 weeks in advance). Then I research each of the pieces I've chosen in reference books, online, and at my local public library, as I decide what to share with listeners. I also answer a lot of listener email -- questions and comments about the program.