Frances Renzi
Piano
Steinway Artist Frances Renzi has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including those of Dallas, Houston, Toledo, and the New Hampshire Music Festival. She has performed throughout North America, Taiwan, and China, giving recitals in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, at the Phillips Collecton in Washington, D.C., at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and at the China Conservatory in Beijing. She appears regularly as a featured guest artist on the Toledo Symphony Chamber Series, performs each summer as a soloist and chamber musician at the New Hampshire Music Festival, and has performed as a solo pianist for the New York City Ballet. She was a founding member of the Toledo Trio at the University of Toledo and performed with them for 27 years. Ms. Renzi has recorded both solo and chamber music for Educo, Centaur, Koch International, the Musical Heritage Society, Azica, Audite, and Decca-Argo. Her numerous recordings have won critical acclaim and many awards in Europe and the United States, including a Grammy nomination for the recording of the chamber music of Paul Schoenfield for Decca-Argo.
An experienced teacher as well as performer, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Toledo. In 2000, she received a commendation from the Ohio Senate honoring her outstanding university career.