KENN GARTNER

Pianist, Conductor, Teacher "Extraordinaire"
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BIOGRAPHY

Kenn Gartner began the study of the piano at the age of two and a half. Initially studying with his mother to become a violinist, after breaking two violins, she decided on something a little 'sturdier'. At eight he was a member of the Children’s Opera Company, singing at the City Center, the Winter Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera. Continuing his studies of piano at Mary Baldwin College after graduating from Staunton Military Academy (VA), Kenn majored in Music at Cornell University. There e worked with John Kirkpatrick (Charles Ives' pianist) and following with his graduate degree at the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Adele Marcus and Edward Steuermann (Arnold Schoenberg’s pianist.) He has also worked with Eugene List. His fourth degree is a Ph.D. in Performance from New York University. Dr. Gartner has performed both formally and informally in more than 50 countries with experiences ranging from a command performance for the Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a Masters Class in Piano in Shanghai, China. He was the first New York City teacher to have performed in New York’s prestigious Town Hall. Among many other things, 'Maestro G' is also a piano, voice and coach of performace practice for all instruments and voices, professionally active in the Bay Area of California. The only Julliard instructor in Piano and Voice in northern California, Dr. Gartner spends most of his time teaching and conducting choruses and orchestras. His prize winning choruses recently performed Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s and Brahms’ Requiems, and Beethoven.

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