Gail Berenson is Professor of Piano at Ohio University, Athens, having served as Keyboard Division Chair for twenty-three years. She was awarded the "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" Award in 2000. Prior to her arrival at Ohio University in 1975, she taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana. An active performer and passionate chamber music collaborator, she performs with the Cardinal Trio with Ohio University colleagues, Marjorie Bagley, violin and Michael Carrera, cello and with flutist, Alison Brown Sincoff, as a member of the Ohio University Lyric Duo.
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"Schubert's late B-flat Sonata, D. 960, revealed Miss Berenson's ability to draw and sustain broad paragraphs and successfully handle music composed on a large canvas."
--The Times (London)
"The Ravel put in full light the mastery of the interpreter; her sonorities were skillfully nuanced, her playing assured and vigorous, well-balanced, her virtuosity at ease and brilliant and expressive strength always in control."
--Journal de Vervier (Belgium)