Susan has been the Music Director at the United Parish since May 2001. She began her vocal training at the University of Southern California, where she studied with Nina Hinson, Madame Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Natalie Lamonick. Her professional credits include numerous performances with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, the Newport Music Festival, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, California Repertory Opera, Music from Bear Valley, Pippen's Pocket Opera, Kensington Symphony, the McGilvray Chorale, San Francisco Chamber Singers, and at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. She has performed with such distinguished conductors as Robert Shaw, Edo De Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, Neemi Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Nelson, Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur and Christopher Hogwood.

Ms. Bonito was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions and the Music Teachers Association VOCE Auditions, a finalist in the California Young Artist's Competition sponsored by the Carmel Music Society, and a semifinalist in the Belvedere International Opera Auditions in Vienna.

Concert tours have taken her to Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Alaska, and throughout the United States. Recording and film score collaborations include two Grammy-winning recordings with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, and the film soundtrack for Godfather, Part III with Carmine Copola conducting.

Susan is an active performer, voice teacher and choir director and is currently on the voice faculty at Indian Hill Music School, and Pakachoag Music School. She is also the founder of Adventures in Music, an interactive music enrichment program for children. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).