About Deena Winters

• Bachelors of Music, BYU, Piano Performance & Pedagogy
• Leonard Pennario Piano Scholarship, BYU
• Post Graduate work in Jazz studies at BYU:  Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Lab Band, Afro-Cuban Music, Salsa Band, Jazz Piano Trio, Jazz Piano Voicing, Jazz Improvisation, Private Lessons Jazz Piano, Private Saxophone Lessons from Dr Ray Smith, Big Band Composition & Arranging
• Staff Accompanist at BYU School of Music, accompanied students required graduation recitals, masterclasses, competitions and juries
• Staff Accompanist for Women’s Jazz Choir under the direction of Kelly Eisenhour
• Staff Accompanist BYU Ballet Department, accompanied for BYU faculty and guest artists from Bolshoi Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ballet West and San Francisco Ballet
• Staff Accompanist BYU Modern Dance Department, created music & accompanied for BYU faculty and guest artists Bill Evans, Paul Matteson, Keith Johnson, Ruping Wang – Taiwan Repertory Dance , Thayer Jonutz- RDT
• Staff Accompanist American Collegiate Dance Festival
• Principal classical piano teacher Robert Smith, BYU (This is Bachauer Director Douglas Humphery’s formative piano teacher as well as Tabernacle Choir Director Ryan Murphy’s piano teacher.)
• Principal jazz piano teacher Ted Rosenthal – faculty at the Julliard School, NYC
• Professional Training Workshops at Carnegie Hall NYC (audited) under Leon Fleisher, Yo Yo Ma, Fred Hersch, Kenny Barron
• Director of Jazz Piano Artists of Utah
• Nordstrom Pianist
• Studied organ with tabernacle organist Dr. Brian Mathias
• 36 years teaching piano
• Performs with Deena Winters Band, Tre Voce and The Brahms Project