Teresa Carreno was a renowned Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor.Due to her unbounded energy and passion in her music shows, she was nicknamed the Valkyrie of the Piano. Teresa Carreno was born into a music-loving family that had produced three generations of outstanding musicians. Beginning her training at the age of six with her father in Venezuela, she later moved with her family to the USA, where she made her professional debut at the age of eight. It was so very successful that she began to give regular concerts, appearing in uncountable number of programs across the globe over a period of fifty-four years, concurrently studying with many world-renowned musicians. Over the time, she became known not only as an outstanding pianist, but also as a successful soprano, composer, and conductor. In her later years, she also started teaching, instructing her students in person whenever she could, sending notes by post at other times. She premiered several compositions of her favorite student, Edward MacDowell. Mother of six surviving children, she was as caring and affectionate to her students as she was to her own brood.