Deirdre Brenner

Irish-American pianist Deirdre Brenner leads a dynamic career in chamber music and art song. She has given recitals in venues including the Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Kozerthaus (Vienna), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Teatro Real (Madrid), and the National Concert Hall (Dublin). She has performed at festivals including the Oxford Lieder Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Schubertíada Vilabertran, Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music and the Portogruaro International Music Festival and has recorded for broadcasts ORF, NPR, RTÉ and BR-Klassik. Further musical projects have taken her to Egypt, Venezuela, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Samoa and the Kingdom of Tonga.

In 2013 Deirdre co-founded the Boyne Music Festival in Drogheda, an annual summer festival of chamber music, poetry and song. The BMF is celebrated for its creative programming featuring world-class artists in unique historic settings in the Boyne Valley. She also co-curated the innovative concert series Mosaïque in Vienna, Austria from 2013 to 2018.

After almost two decades living in Vienna, Deirdre has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). She taught previously at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, IES Abroad, and the Performing Center Austria in Vienna and has given masterclasses internationally.

Born in Massachusetts, USA, Deirdre earned a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College with a double major in Engineering Sciences and Music, and Master’s degrees from both the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Konservatorium Wien (MUK) in Vienna.