Carla Trynchuk & Trina Thompson

Chamber Music

Enjoy an evening of chamber music featuring works by Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, and Sergei Prokofiev performed by Andrews University faculty members Carla Trynchuk and Trina Thompson at the Howard Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2011. This faculty recital of violin and piano selections is part of the Howard Center Presents…2010–2011 series.

Trina Thompson is Assistant Professor of Music at Andrews University, where she teaches theory and piano, and also serves as the Theory Area Coordinator.
Previously, she taught written and aural theory on both the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She also served as a member of the music faculty at Walla Walla University, where she taught theory and piano, directed the Piano Preparatory Division, and served as interim departmental chair.

Thompson received a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Northern Illinois University under the guidance of Donald Walker. She earned the Bachelor of Arts in Music, Humanities, and Spanish from Walla Walla University, where she studied piano with Debra Bakland.

Thompson is completing her doctoral studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory.  While in residence at IU, she was awarded Indiana University's Chancellor's Fellowship and the IU Music Theory Department's Dissertation-Year Fellowship. Her doctoral dissertation, directed by Robert Hatten, focuses on the art songs of Debussy. Thompson is the editor of two double issues of the Indiana Theory Review, one on general topics in music theory, and one on the interaction of text and music.