Biography
Tom Trenney
serves as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Congregational Church (United
Church of Christ) in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He leads a vibrant music ministry, conducting adult and children’s
choirs, playing the church’s magnificent Schoenstein organ, and serving as
Artistic Director of the acclaimed Abendmusik: Lincoln Concert Series. Tom is also Music Director of sounding light- the chamber choir of Many Voices…One Song, an extensive music outreach program he founded in Birmingham,
Michigan. A graduate of the Cleveland
Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for his
teachers and mentors: Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, David Higgs, William
Weinert, Anne Wilson, and Todd Wilson.
Tom shares his
passion as pastoral musician, performer, and teacher both in worship
with his home congregation and in recitals, hymn festivals, choral and organ
workshops, and master classes all around the country. Known for his engaging
improvisations on hymns, submitted themes, silent films, scripture, poetry, and
artwork, Tom became the first organist to be awarded
First Prize and Audience Prize in the American Guild of Organists’ (AGO)
National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 2006. He currently serves on the committee which
will administer this competition in 2012.
Represented
by Karen McFarlane Artists Concert Management, Tom has performed at such venues
as Royce Hall (UCLA), the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall (Nashville), Benaroya Hall
(Seattle), Ocean Grove Auditorium (New Jersey), Portland Municipal Auditorium
(Maine), Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego), and Verizon Hall at Kimmel
Center (Philadelphia). Most notably, he
has been featured at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of
Organists, the Organ Historical Society, the Presbyterian Association of
Musicians, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, the Fellowship of
United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, and the Calvin Institute of
Worship. His recordings, Organa
Americana (Pro Organo) and Organ Ovations and Improvisations (Raven)
have received much critical acclaim.
Current as of August 2010