Rogers Fine Arts 300
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We each have music born within us that no one else has ever made and no one else ever could. It is a rich blessing and a deep privilege to be part of helping others to set that music free!
Composer, conductor, organist, preacher, and teacher Tom Trenney has been Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 2019. Tom also serves as Minister of Music to Lincoln's historic First-Plymouth Church and as Artistic Director of Abendmusik. Tom’s choirs have been honored to perform for state, regional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and they have been award winners in the American Prize for choral ensembles. He serves as Music in Worship Chair for Midwest ACDA.
Tom has been a featured performer at churches, colleges, and concert halls across the country including Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Philadelphia’s Kauffman Center, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall. His choral compositions are published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst Press, Choristers Guild, E.C. Schirmer/Galaxy, Morningstar, Musicspoke, Pavane, and G. Schirmer.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for the inspiration of his teachers and mentors – especially Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Craig Hella Johnson, (Mister) Fred Rogers, William Weinert, Anne Wilson and Todd Wilson.
B.M. Organ Performance, Cleveland Institute of Music, 1999.
M.M. Choral Conducting, Eastman School of Music, 2002.
M.M. Organ Performance, Eastman School of Music, 2002.
Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir and Chamber Singers
Advanced Conducting
Singing as a Spiritual Expression
Formation of the Choral Community
Vocation of the Church Musician
Organ Improvisation
Minister of Music, First-Plymouth Church, Lincoln, Nebraska
Foster Parent
American Guild of Organists
Nebraska Music Educators Association
American Choral Directors Association
Presbyterian Association of Musicians
Hymn Society of America