Dr. Arlene Shrut
Arlene Shrut is the Founder and Artistic Director of New Triad for Collaborative Arts. A faculty member of The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Arlene is an admired keyboard performer hailed as a “strong and sensitive pianist” by The New York Times. She was honored in 2003 as the inaugural “Coach of the Year” in Classical Singer Magazine. Arlene has collaborated with such vocal artists as Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson and has recorded on the Dorian, Centaur, Orion, Summit and Albany Records labels.
Among her credits is “Songs of Hugo Wolf”(with Daniel Lichti on Dorian CDs), which received a Canadian Grammy nomination. Her most recent CD release is titled “The Unquiet Heart”. This recording, with Karen Smith Emerson, soprano, features four American song cycles and was released early in 2007 on Albany Records. Arlene often serves as official pianist for many of NY’s top vocal events, and has performed in such venues as Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The National Gallery, The Phillips Collection and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She has toured extensively in Europe and across North America.
Arlene Shrut earned two solo piano degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctorate in Accompanying from the University of Southern California. In 1981, she received a Fulbright grant to Germany in vocal coaching, and has mentored with the most distinguished teachers of her time. Arlene makes her home on the Upper West Side of New York City.
Among her credits is “Songs of Hugo Wolf”(with Daniel Lichti on Dorian CDs), which received a Canadian Grammy nomination. Her most recent CD release is titled “The Unquiet Heart”. This recording, with Karen Smith Emerson, soprano, features four American song cycles and was released early in 2007 on Albany Records. Arlene often serves as official pianist for many of NY’s top vocal events, and has performed in such venues as Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The National Gallery, The Phillips Collection and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She has toured extensively in Europe and across North America.
Arlene Shrut earned two solo piano degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctorate in Accompanying from the University of Southern California. In 1981, she received a Fulbright grant to Germany in vocal coaching, and has mentored with the most distinguished teachers of her time. Arlene makes her home on the Upper West Side of New York City.