Debra Ayers, piano

   
     Debra Ayers performs extensively as a recitalist with singers, instrumentalists, and chamber music ensembles including Vega string quartet, Arcadian Winds, Auros New Music Ensemble, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Players, Emerald City Opera, Breckenridge Music Festival and Serenata of Santa Fe. She is co-founder and pianist of Boston-based MONTAGE Music Society. With MONTAGE cellist Marc Moskovitz she presented the North American premiere of the rediscovered Zemlinsky Cello Sonata at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. A proponent of contemporary music, premieres include works by William Bolcom, Paul Elwood, Andrew List, Daniel Schnyder and Yehudi Wyner among others.
    Ayers is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Adele Marcus Foundation and the Norman Cousins Award. An alumna of the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin, her teachers include André-Michel Schub, Brooks Smith, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Martin Katz, and John Barrows.
    Recordings include a critically acclaimed recording with Ilana Davidson of Ernst Krenek Lieder (Capriccio) and MONTAGE Music Society recordings of Alfredo Piatti works (VAI) and the newly-released STARRY NIGHT Project…music based on visual art (MSR). She has been called “superb”by the Rocky Mountain Newa, “agile and confident” by the Washington Post, and “fabulous accompaniment”by The Guardian (UK).
See website at www.debraayers.com/