Noreen Wenjen, NCTM, is an internationally recognized piano teacher, author, and entrepreneur. In 2022, she received the Steinway Top Teacher Award, “Most Inspirational Music Teacher, Southern California” from Acquisitions International business awards and “2021 Local Businessperson of the Year” in Torrance by Alignable. Wenjen Piano Studios was voted Best Music Studio by the Daily Breeze/Beach Reporter newspapers.

In 2020, as a response to teachers struggling due to the Covid-19 changes, Noreen has helped other music teachers survive and thrive with her Wenjenpiano YouTube channel and launching bestselling video online courses: The Entrepreneurial Crash Course for Music Teachers and How to Create A Studio Policy for Entrepreneurs. Noreen is the author of Two-Year Wait List: An Entrepreneurial Guide for Music Teachers (which hit #1 on Amazon for Music Instruction and Study, published by Audrey Press 2019). Her album, Santa Barbara Flow, dropped on October 15, 2022 and is available on Spotify.

Noreen is leader in music technology and small-business entrepreneurship. Noreen's marketing background working with Fortune 500 companies, Nissin Foods and Aquent, has helped her bring business savvy to her piano studio, www.wenjenpiano.com. Her upcoming events can be found here.

Noreen currently serves on the board of directors as the Music Teachers National Association MTNA SW Division Director and completed her last term as CAPMT VP of Membership in 2023. She served as  president of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT.org) from 2017-2019 and has served CAPMT since 2007. In 2019, she served on the MTNA American Music Teacher (AMT) Editorial Committee, as MTNA Chair for certification in China, and served as Chair of the MTNA State Presidents Advisory Council. She was honored to be named as an MTNA Fellow from California in May 2020. Ms. Wenjen enjoys giving music business and technology keynotes for conferences and podcasts.

She has been a member and served continuously in many leadership position in the MTAC Music Teachers Association of California for over 25 years. She served as CM Senior Medallion Chair and started the MSSL Music Student Service League in the MTAC South Bay Branch for 10 years. She served as 1st Vice President for ten years and helped to run the Sonatina/Sonata Competition for over 5 years in the MTAC Long Beach Branch.

She received a BM from UC Santa Barbara in Piano Performance, and an Artist Diploma in performance from the American College of Musicians. Noreen has received top prizes from international piano competition, including first place in the Krenék Competition from the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition, 2nd place in the Chopin and Schubert competitions.

She received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and is listed in Who's Who Among American Women. Her teachers include Joanna Hodges, Nancy Rohr, Peter Yazbeck, Dr. Stewart Gordon, and Jim McCormick. Her teachers’ teachers can be traced back to Beethoven and Liszt!

Noreen has received her permanent certification as a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, is a Royal Conservatory Certified Teacher in piano and music theory.

She is privileged to have taught extraordinary students who are blind, deaf, gifted, profoundly gifted, dyslexic, and have ADHD. Her students receive top awards in competitions. Ms. Wenjen has served as an adjudicator for over 25 years for the Southern California Jr. Bach Festival, Southwestern Youth Music Festival, CAPMT and MTAC Certificate of Merit.

Noreen has been teaching for almost 30 years and has taught online lessons with students in 5 different states and 3 countries for over 10 years, maintains a piano studio in Torrance, CA and enjoys playing tennis, cooking spicy food, and surfing with her family.