Tom trenney biography
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Tom Trenney
Known for his engaging improvisations on hymns, submitted themes, silent films, scripture, poetry, and artwork, Tom Trenney became the first en person som spelar orgel to be awarded First Prize and Audience Prize in the American Guild of Organists’ (AGO) National Competition in Organ spontanitet in 2006.
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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!
Background
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,
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