Dr. Corinne Penner

Dr. Corinne Penner’s performances have taken her across Europe and the United States to venues such as Seiji Ozawa Hall, Museo del Violino, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and Colburn’s Zipper Hall. She has enjoyed a rich and multi-faceted musical training in solo piano, chamber music, and art song, and has received fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center and SongFest. Her 2021-2022 engagements included recitals at the Kulturwerft Gollan with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building with the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Freeport Memorial Library (NY), and the Civic Morning Musicals Concert Series.

Dr. Penner has been a prizewinner in various solo, chamber, and concerto competitions, including the Cremona International Piano Competition, the BMC-Zimmerli Foundation Piano Competition, the Kansas City Symphony Young Artist Competition, and others. She has received generous grants from the Koch Cultural Trust and the Performing Arts Consortium for her artistic endeavors, and her recent performances have been broadcast on WMHT. Her principal teachers included Christina Dahl, Ann Schein, and Li-Shan Hung; she is also grateful for additional lessons with Gilbert Kalish and Peter Serkin and the invitation to play in several masterclass series for Menahem Pressler.

A special love for art song also led to classes and coachings with Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Christoph Prégardien, Joan Rodgers, and many other vocal luminaries. As an avid performer of 20th- and 21st-century music, she has worked with composers William Bolcom, Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, and Matthew Aucoin on their own compositions.

Dr. Penner previously served on the piano faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, and on the chamber music faculty of the Stony Brook Young Artist Program. She holds degrees from Biola University’s Conservatory of Music and from Stony Brook University, where she received her DMA in Piano Performance.

Office: BPAC 114 * Phone: (254) 299-8285 * Email: cpenner@mclennan.edu