Brenda Tom
Pianist Brenda Tom is well known as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She has won numerous international and national piano competitions and has performed as soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the California Symphony, the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra, I Solisti di Oakland, the Sacramento Symphony, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Diablo Symphony, and the Sacramento Ballet Orchestra, among others. Ms. Tom has served as the principal pianist with the Sacramento Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Monterey Symphony and Santa Cruz Symphony, and has performed with Earplay, the Sacramento Chamber Music Association, MusicNow, Chamber Music/West, the Cabrillo Festival, the Festival of New American Music, Music From Bear Valley, and the Hidden Valley Music Festival. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Beatrice Beauregard and Mack McCray, and performed in the master classes of Leon Fleisher, Aldo Ciccolini, John Perry, Daniel Pollack, Russell Sherman, Anton Kuerti, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Ms. Tom has recorded with PianoDisc, China Recording Company, Klavier Records, V’tae Records, and IMG Media.
