about

A musician with a passion for chamber music and art song, Deirdre Brenner has performed in venues including the Wiener Musikverein (Vienna), Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna), Wiener Volksoper (Vienna), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Teatro Real (Madrid), Philharmonie Essen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Stadthalle (Bayreuth), the National Concert Hall (Dublin), St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London) and the Hollywell Music Room (Oxford).

Deirdre has given concerts at festivals including the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, Oxford Lieder Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Schubertíada, LOISIARTE, Rhodes Chamber Music Festival, Gustav Mahler Festival, Stimmen Festival Freistadt, and Portogruaro International Music Festival.

She has partnered with artists including Wolfgang Holzmair, Birgid Steinberger, Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres, John Chest, Layla Claire, Elena Copons, Dorrotya Láng, Sophie Junker, Margaret Plummer and Klemens Sander, and has performed as soloist with numerous ensembles including the Arnold Schoenberg Chor. She has recorded for broadcasts on ORF, NPR, RTE and BR-Klassik, among others. Further musical projects have taken her to Venezuela, Egypt, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Samoa and the Kingdom of Tonga. 

Born in Massachusetts, 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).

She studied with pianists including Carolyn Hague, Susan Manoff, John O'Conor, Julius Drake, Colin Stone, Sally Pinkas and Loretta Slovak.

Also in demand as a coach, Deirdre is currently on the faculty of Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz. She taught previously at the Joseph Haydn Konservatorium in Eisenstadt, the Institute for European Studies (IES), and the Performing Center Austria in Vienna, and has given masterclasses in the USA, Ireland and Austria.

Deirdre is co-founder and director of the Boyne Music Festival in Ireland as well as the innovative concert series Mosaïque in Vienna.

She currently resides in Vienna.