Glenn Rasmussen was born in a small mission hospital in western Ethiopia. At that timehis father was a minister working in Sudan. His earliest memories of music are singing hymns and choruses with his siblings around the piano. He began piano lessons at age eight.When he was 11 years old his parents took him and his siblings back to Ethiopia. This time his father was a medical missionary.After a 4 year stint the family moved back to the United States where Glenn entered 10th grade in Carthage, NY. At that time Glenn decided to pursue music as a career and began serious lessons with ateacher at Syracuse University.After graduating from high school Glenn attended Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatoryof Music in Baltimore, MD. He earned his Certificate in Piano Performance in 1974. Two years later he entered The Juilliard School in NYC and graduated in 1980 with bothBachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance.In 1982 Glenn met and married his wife of 39 years. Their son was born the following year and the young family moved to Ojai, CA where Glenn taught music at the ThatcherSchool.In 1986 they relocated to Knoxville, TN where Glenn taught piano lessons and was the pianist at Fountain City UMC.Shortly thereafter Glenn was invited to take over a studio of 49 piano students in Rogersville, TN - an opportunity he could not turn down.Thus began 19 years of teaching, performing, tuning pianos, and living a quiet life in asetting where he and his wife reared their son and daughter.In 1998 Glenn had the opportunity to tour Kuwait, Bahrain and the Azores, playing forUS troops stationed there, as a member of Country Plus, a band of musicians from Rogersville. In 2007 Glenn and his wife moved to Bradenton, FL so their daughter could attended theIMG tennis academy.Glenn was blessed to become the pianist and music director at Faith UMC in PalmaSola, a position he held until 2015 when he and his wife retired. They moved back to Tennessee and began a new life in Harrogate. In September of 2023 Glenn accepted the offer to become the pianist for LaFolletteMethodist Church.