- Artist-Lecturer in piano
- Accompanying
memns02@moravian.edu
Martha Schrempel, piano, is a graduate of Vassar College and the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with the legendary piano teacher, Rosina Lhevinne. On the occasion of her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, The New York Times wrote of Ms. Schrempel: she is "a pianist of taste and technical finesse.Everything she played had a warm, intimate tone and a textual transparency. Debussy.was brilliantly handled as a diamond-hard study in sonority." As a soloist and accompanist to both singers and instrumentalists, Ms. Schrempel has appeared in such festival and series as the Beethoven Festival in New York, the National Gallery of Art Chamber Music Series in Washington, DC, the Moravian Music Festival in North Carolina, and Musikfest in Pennsylvania. She has played with Robin Kani, flutist, on National Public Radio, and has concertized widely in the U.S., Caribbean, and Europe. Ms. Schrempel has toured the Czech Republic four times with New York-based Poetica Musica, performing in several international festivals, including the South Bohemia and Janácek festivals. She has performed with numerous orchestras in the United States, and is principal keyboardist in the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra. She received her doctorate from Temple University, while studying with Harvey Wedeen.
