Donna Stoering, pianist

Donna Stoering, pianist, is the founder, artistic director and host of the Notes for Nourishment concert series. She is an award-winning recording artist, concert pianist, educator, composer, vocal soloist, producer and social entrepreneur who has served as Artistic Ambassador for both the UK and USA to countries worldwide. Donna has been performing public concerts since age five, and teaching professionally since age 11. She has founded new concert series and music festivals on three continents, taught both performers and piano teachers at music conservatories around the globe, and performed in television programs about music, on numerous international networks. A protégé of the late Sir Georg Solti, she has been the subject of special programs on the BBC, Hong Kong Radio & TV, Brazilian national television, RAI (Italy), NPR and PBS stations, and the national networks of many other countries.
A Marshall Scholar who has lived in both the UK and Europe, Donna enjoyed teaching at University of York and then serving as Artist in Residence at Oxford University, while performing solo recitals and concerti in the major halls of Europe and coaching/accompanying many famed opera stars of La Scala, Munich Opera, the Royal Opera, the Bolshoi and the Met. Solo performances have brought her to countless countries, including unusual destinations like Republic of Georgia, Bosnia, and Turkmenistan. She has performed as soloist with major conductors and orchestras, and has also toured extensively as a duo-recital partner with renowned instrumentalists and as featured guest artist with string quartets and chamber groups. Donna has given numerous premieres of both piano and vocal works that have been written specifically for her. She has adjudicated for national and international competition juries and is currently giving master-classes and pedagogy workshops to universities, music schools and Piano Teachers’ Associations where she shares her unique approach to piano teaching/playing, which utilizes the anatomy of the human body more effectively and is based on her own studies with Mary Sauer, pianist of the Chicago Symphony. Donna and her husband Andy Anderson moved to Alameda in 2015, and between her concert tours she has started a private studio here, teaching piano, performance, pedagogy, and vocal coaching/accompanying (contact on FB, LinkedIn or dstoering@gmail.com and see her YouTube channel and websites: donnastoering.com, listenforlife.org & notesfornourishment.org ).