Nenia Zenana

Position
Part-time Teacher
Studies
Piano
Area
Applied piano
Voice
Department
Education

Nenia Zenana graduated from RDAM in 1996 in aural training, conducting and piano.

Teaching

Nenia is employed at RDAM as a part-time teacher of applied piano, and has previously taught aural training at the same institution. Since 1996 she has been a teacher in the Department of Musicology. She has also taught at music schools and DAMU (the Danish Amateur Music Union), and has had private students in piano, aural training and conducting.

Nenia is also a qualified Body SDS therapist, and has been working as a body therapist since 2010.

Artistic practice

Nenia is conductor of the Music Students’ Choir, MUKO, and of the Academic Orchestra and Choir, with whom she has performed and recorded several major classical works. She has also conducted the Danish National Girls’ Choir, DUSIKA, Elverhøjkoret, Mastodonterne and the Danish Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. She has been a vocal coach in various musicals/musical theatre shows, and has played many concerts with Neniaband and her own duo.

Over the years, Nenia has given several lectures, including on music, leadership, spiritual and energy work in music, as well as on miracles, angels and semitones.

International activities

In 2008 Nenia conducted a project in a festival in Kunming, in Yunan Province, China. The choir was local and the soloist Danish.

Moderator in Musicology, University of Copenhagen and RDAM.

Nenia has published several compendiums for use in teaching aural training/applied piano in the subject of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen.

She has also published various programme items for concerts with the Academic Orchestra and Choir since 2000.

CD releases

Arvo Pärt, Hildegard Von Bingen
Værker af Hildegard Von Bingen/Arvo Pärt: Te Deum
Academic Orchestra and Choir, Nenia Zenana, Marianne G. Nielsen
CLASSCD 469

Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem
Anne Margrethe Dahl, Anne Kleinstrup, Niels Jørgen Riis, Christian Christiansen, Academic Orchestra and Choir, Nenia Zenana
CLASSCD 400-01

C.F. Händel
Messias
Marianne G. Nielsen, Ulla Kudsk Jensen, Kristian Sørensen, John Lundgren, Academic Orchestra and Choir, Nenia Zenana
CLASSCD 747-48

Various composers
De Små Synger – Jubilæumsudgave (1 og 2)
Jacob Mangwana Haagendal, Nenia Zenana, Benita Haastrup, Hugo Rasmussen, 4.u. from Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, and others (compiled and arranged by Søren Nyborg-Jensen, arranged by Fuzzy and Christina Von Bülow).
Høst/Exlibris

Neniaband
Findes
Released 1993.