Carrie Feiner

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Carrie Feiner (born September 17, 1957) is founder and manager of Carrie Feiner Enterprises. Her music and entertainment business, which is based in New York, represents over 100 performers in over 500 events nationally.^[1]^[2]

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Feiner graduated from Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York in 1975. She graduated from Mannes College of Music in New York City with a Bachelor of Music in 1979, and received a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School of Music in 1981. In college and graduate school she was a piano major and studied with Josef Raieff. She began her career as a classical pianist, performing solo and in ensembles including at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and winning various competition prizes.

She has arranged events for New York City mayors John Lindsay, Ed Koch, and Rudy Giuliani, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, author Eli Wiesel, the New York Mets baseball team, Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine, flutist Jean Pierre Rampal, newsman Walter Cronkite, and many others. In 2005, she became concert manager for world renowed classical concert pianist Sara Davis Buechner. She currently books over 40 performances per year in the USA and Canada.

Feiner was the winner of the Myrtle Wreath Award, Magda Dahl prize for contributions to the field of music, and in 1997, 1998 and 1999 recognized by the March of Dimes Foundation for her work in the entertainment industry. She currently lives in Scarsdale, New York with her husband and her four daughters.