Tom Trenney

Trenney serves as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) in Lincoln, Nebraska.' He leads a vibrant music ministry, conducting adult and children's choirs, playing the church's magnificent Schoenstein organ, and serving as Artistic Director of the acclaimed Abendmusik Concert Series. Tom is also Music Director of sounding light, the chamber choir of Many Voices'One Song, an extensive music outreach program he founded in Birmingham, Michigan.' A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for his teachers and mentors: Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, David Higgs, William Weinert, Anne Wilson, and Todd Wilson. Tom shares his passion as pastoral musician, performer, and teacher both in worship with his home congregation and in recitals, hymn festivals, choral and organ workshops, and master classes all around the country.' Known for his engaging improvisations on hymns, submitted themes, silent films, scripture, poetry, and artwork, Tom became the first organist to be awarded First Prize and Audience Prize in the American Guild of Organists' (AGO) National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 2006.'