Kelly Lenahan

Kelly Lenahan is a pianist and organist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She received a

Master’s Degree from the Royal College of Music, London, and a Bachelor’s degree from

Belmont University.

As a collaborative pianist, Kelly has worked as a répétiteur, choral

accompanist, and chamber musician. As an orchestral pianist, Kelly has held principal

positions with the Britten-Pears Orchestra, the Royal College of Music’s International Opera

School Orchestra and New Perspectives Ensemble, Chautauqua’s Music School Festival

Orchestra, and has been a substitute with the Nashville Symphony. She has been recently

named as a Britten-Pears Young Artist, performing as a soloist with the Britten-Pears Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop, with recordings released on the Naxos label.

Other appearances as a soloist include the Nashville Symphony and Belmont Symphony. As

a ballet pianist, Kelly has worked with companies including Mark Morris Dance Group and

American Ballet Theatre.

She resides in Washington, D.C., where she is a company pianist for The Washington Ballet, accompanist for the Capitol Hill Chorale, and collaborative pianist for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts