Deanna Witkowski

Jazz pianist and Mary Lou Williams biographer. Winner of the 2022 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award and the 2022 JJA Award for Biography of the Year.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@SamScumaci Thanks for posting!

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@sciencemusicinc @HankCenterLUC @CAS_Loyola @LoyolaChicago Thanks so much, Michael! I hope you received my email--I'll send Length of Days to you when I'm back at home!

[The Hank Center @HankCenterLUC]

Join us next week for our Mary Lou Williams Lecture & Gala Performance @deannawit. On 3/21, Deanna Witkowski will give an interactive lecture on Deanna's biography of Williams. On 3/22, Deanna will be giving a jazz performance of Mary Lou's best hits. @CAS_Loyola @LoyolaChicago

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@HankCenterLUC @CardinalBCupich @jesuiticalshow @CRCfordham @boisi_center @jasonwblakely @deannaw I'm happy to be part of this lineup! (Please note that I'm at @deannawit, not @deannaw)

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@sionmun @collirplot @_gwilym @MelltCerdd @KIMHON420 @pysmelyn @achlysurol Thanks for listening to Force of Nature! I love that Donald Byrd album, too.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@UofNO I had a great time at @UofNO working with your students and playing at the Sandbar!

[The Hank Center @HankCenterLUC]

Deanna Witkowski of @PittTweet is our next Hank Center fellow. Her project titled "Jazz in the Pews: 'Experiments in Sunday Worship' in the 1960s" brought her to the National Black Catholic Congress to further her studies. https://t.co/oqDLhK27i3

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@6GPress Wow. The public transit here is terrible.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@6GPress Thanks for coming!

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@PaulSnatchko @PghEventsOffice @radworkshere @BenvenutisPF @LaScolas_Ice @WZUMJazz @Pittsburgh Thanks, @PaulSnatchko!

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@JazzWeek Thank you so much, @EdTrefzger, for the wonderful review!

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

This Friday at the Rochester International Jazz Festival! https://t.co/YXgo0gFv17

[JazzComposersPresent @JazzCompPresent]

https://t.co/8m0GD6cx57 is excited for our Composer Spotlight on Wed., June 14th at 7pm ET ft. pianist, composer, & author Deanna Witkowski @deannawit, hosted by Erica Seguine @ESSBJO.

Deanna will be presenting "Setting Text for A Cappella SATB Choir", & taking questions live.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@RobertEllsberg "Miss D.D." was written for Doris Duke.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

New mini-lesson on jazz arranging for congregational singing that I recorded for Jazz Composers Present is up!

[JazzComposersPresent @JazzCompPresent]

“It creates a sense of community and allows your audience to participate.”

Using her arrangement of “Hyfrydol (Love Divine, All Loves Excelling)” composer Deanna Witkowski @deannawit explores jazz arranging for group singing in today’s mini-lesson.
https://t.co/nex68E3q5m

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

For my church music friends: Happy almost Pentecost! Here’s sheet music and audio/video of my joyful setting of “Kindle in Us Your Love” (“Come, Holy Spirit, kindle in us the fire of your love”) at https://t.co/1FeWq9BxSl. https://t.co/ZY2cbS01Jp

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@6GPress I recognize this paragraph!

[WZUM Pittsburgh Jazz @WZUMJazz]

Mary Lou Williams, Pittsburgh, Kennedy Center and More - with Deanna Witkowski, Bobbie Ferguson on the Scene https://t.co/mm6X6UQHYh

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@Tvbona @DaultRadio @NotSeenRadio I know that photo- but the photo on screen of Mary Lou isn't one I'd seen before. Going to send you a PM.

[Deanna Witkowski @deannawit]

@Tvbona @DaultRadio @NotSeenRadio What presentation is this from?