Anderson Brenner
Vocal Coach and Accompanist

Shaker Mountain welcomes back pianist, Anderson Brenner, for his second season.  In the summer of 2002, he participated in the Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival as Vocal Coach and Accompanist. 

Mr. Brenner was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he started studying piano at the age of seven. After moving to São Paulo, he continued his studies under Ana Maria Nascimento and Daisy De Luca.

Starting in 1988, Mr. Brenner served as pianist for the Adventist Choir Association of São Paulo, and later worked as the principal accompanist for the Guaíra Theater in Curitiba, Brazil, on productions of Puccini's La Bohème and Haydn's Creation. He also worked as an accompanist for the Brazilian Opera Society. One of his last positions in Brazil was with the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo as a coach for a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

In  1996 he started working in the United States. He currently resides in New York City, where he has worked in the studios and master classes of Anna Moffo, Licia Albanese, Lucine Amara, Elinor Ross, Franco Iglesias and Renata Scotto, among others. He also collaborates with many local opera companies in the New York area.