Debra Ayers, piano

   
    Debra Ayers performs internationally as a recitalist with singers, instrumentalists, and chamber music ensembles. She is co-founder/pianist of MONTAGE Music Society and the Taos Trio. She also performs regularly with Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone Keith Miller, Breckenridge Music Festival, Serenata of Santa Fe, and has collaborated with the Vega String Quartet, Arcadian Winds, Auros New Music Ensemble, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Players and Emerald City Opera.
    A proponent of contemporary music, premieres include works by William Bolcom, Paul Elwood, Andrew List, Daniel Schnyder, Ronald Strauss and Yehudi Wyner. With MONTAGE cellist Marc Moskovitz she was privileged to present the North American premiere of the rediscovered Zemlinsky Cello Sonata at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
    An alumna of the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin, her teachers include Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Martin Katz, André-Michel Schub, Brooks Smith and John Barrows. Ayers can be heard on critically- acclaimed recordings by MONTAGE Music Society, “STARRY NIGHT Project…music based on visual art” (MSR) and “Music of Alfredo Piatti” (VAI); and “Ernst Krenek Lieder” with soprano Ilana Davidson (Capriccio).
See website at www.debraayers.com/