Dr. Michael Yenny

Dr. Michael Yenny Staff Accompanist D.M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln M.M., University of Colorado at Boulder B.M.E., South Dakota State University Office: CARR 218 Phone:(325) 942-2085, Ext. 286 E-Mail: michael.yenny@angelo.edu

Wyoming native Michael Yenny holds the Bachelor of Music Education Degree from South Dakota State University, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts Degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, respectively.  Dr. Yenny is currently the Collaborative Artist and Accompanist-in-Residence at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX.

Known for his unique musical versatility, Dr. Yenny maintains an active schedule as concert pianist, collaborative pianist, composer, arranger, and church musician.  Dr. Yenny has been a faculty member of the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, the South Dakota All-State Music Camp in Brookings, SD, and the Yellowstone Summer Music Camp in Powell, Wyoming.  He is a regular utility pianist with the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and the Angelo Civic Theatre, and serves as an official accompanist for the Sorantin International Piano and Strings Competition held in San Angelo.

Dr. Yenny’s collaborative work includes extensive experience with state and regional NATS and MTNA competitions, student recitals of all levels with all instrumental and voice types, competitive and new student auditions, juries, choirs of all instrumentations, voice and choral conducting courses, opera workshop productions, musical theatre genres, and recording sessions.  He completed collaborative and opera coaching courses with Anne Epperson and Nicholas Carthy at the University of Colorado.  Solo performance teachers include John Walker, Andrew Cooperstock, and Mark Clinton.

Dr. Yenny is in high demand as a professional entertainer, providing cocktail piano services for wedding receptions, formal dinners, parties, and other social functions.  He brings many years of experience to this art form.

Dr. Yenny’s creative activity includes over one-hundred original major works comprising solo, pedagogical, and collaborative genres, in addition to an equivocal number of professional arrangements of both secular and religious piano music.

Dr. Yenny was a semi-finalist of the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Performance Competition at the University of Colorado, a finalist of the MTNA West Central Division Collegiate Piano Competition, and a winner of the South Dakota Music Teachers Association Collegiate Piano Competition.  In his spare time Dr. Yenny enjoys reading, walking, bicycling, swimming, visiting his family, and pampering the family cat, “Lulu.”