Shining Through--Rich Warren's CD Pick of the Week!
on WFMT's Midnight Special, April 15, 2006
Tena Moyer--Finalist in the 2006 Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Contest for her song "Company Man"
TENA MOYER. Renaissance Woman.
• Tena Moyer [+]Shining Through--Rich Warren's CD Pick of the Week!
on WFMT's Midnight Special, April 15, 2006
Tena Moyer--Finalist in the 2006 Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Contest for her song "Company Man"
TENA MOYER. Renaissance Woman.
• Tena Moyer, accomplished guitarist, won multiple awards for her playing and her songwriting. Her fingerstyle instrumentals are covered by guitar enthusiasts around the country.
• Tena Moyer, award-winning songwriter, is a two-time finalist of The Napa Valley Folk Festival and won three SAW awards in the jazz category.
• Tena Moyer, vocalist, has a strong, clear voice with an impressive three-octave range, reminiscent of the great Broadway singers.
• Tena Moyer, teacher, teaches at many of the finest music camps, including Puget Sound Guitar Camp, California Coast Music Camp, Swannanoa Gathering, Summersongs, and WOMAMU (Women Making Music).
Early in her life, Tena Moyer’s parents introduced her to the great musicals of Broadway. As a teen, she absorbed the acoustic guitar influences of the seventies, filching licks from the great players—James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Leo Kottke. Her parents had an extensive collection of old records, and Tena now concedes that the music on her parents’ 78’s was pretty cool. This began her love affair with jazz. To combine avocation and education, Tena attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied guitar and composition. She has also studied guitar with Ted Greene (Chord Chemistry), Leon White (Styles for the Studio), and Rick Ruskin. She studied voice with Seth Riggs (“Vocal Coach to the Stars,” including Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler). Riggs, impressed with Tena’s vocal skill, offered her an opportunity to teach voice under his tutelage, and recommend Tena for an audition to the musical theater director at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
But more about the Renaissance Tena… her talents and interests extend beyond the musical sphere. As an undergraduate she studied biology and art, combining these two disparate fields into a freelance avocation as a medical illustrator. She extended her love of the visual arts into the arena of fiber arts and won awards not only for her paintings but for her embroidery work as well. She also develope
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