Susan Platts most recently appeared with the North Carolina Symphony in 2014, as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah.

British born Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts has performed with, among others, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and the symphony orchestras of Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Baltimore. Orchestral highlights include Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and the premiere of a new work by Howard Shore with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Verdi's Requiem with the National Arts Center Orchestra, and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the Orquesta sinfónica nacional de México.

Platts appears on recordings including Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. In 2021, she wrote a cookbook called Aria Ready for Dessert?–A Musician Takes Center Stage in the Kitchen, and started a food blog called Baking, Bits & Bobs.