Wendy Fachini was born in 1966 in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Hilton, New York. She began piano lessons at the age of five and continued privately for seventeen years. She earned a bachelor of music from Heidelberg University in 1988 and continued with two years of graduate studies in musicology at University of California, Los Angeles. In 1994, she opened a piano studio in Thousand Oaks, California, where she teaches today. She is an active member of the Music Teacher's Association of California (MTAC).