First Unitarian Church of Oakland

685 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 893-6129
Music Staff

Trente Morant, Choir Conductor
Trente Morant, Choir Conductor

Trente Morant has been a Bay Area resident for over twenty years, becoming in demand as a conductor, arranger, accompanist and performer. Mr. Morant is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and while studying voice and conducting there, he had the opportunity to work with Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta.

Renée Witon, Church Musician
Renée Witon, Church Musician

Renée, a pianist, accompanist and music educator is one of the church musicians at First Unitarian Church. She is director of music theory for the San Francisco Girls Chorus, teaches piano and theory at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, and also maintains a private piano studio in Oakland. In addition to concert performances, Renée appears as co-host of 90.3 KUSF radio’s Classics Without Walls. In 2000, she released a classical piano CD, Coming Home, featuring music of Brahms, Beethoven, Suk, Ravel, and her own compositions.

Stefan Schneider, Church Musician
Stefan Schneider, Church Musician