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Deanna Witkowski

May 21, 2024 - May 21, 2024 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Lounge at the Greer Cabaret
655 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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BNY Mellon presents JazzLive is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in partnership with MCG JazzThe award-winning bandleader releases her seventh recording, Force of Nature (MCG Jazz) in January 2022, a companion piece to her biography, Mary Lou Williams: Music For The Soul (Liturgical Press), published in September 2021. Witkowski’s explosive performances combine virtuosity and heart, telling stories that reveal her innate curiosity of the human condition.

She has recorded with Grammy nominees John Patitucci, Kate McGarry, and Donny McCaslin, and has performed and toured with renowned vocalists Lizz Wright, Nnenna Freelon, Erin Bode, Filó Machado, and Vanessa Rubin. A frequent winner of composition competitions for her concert and sacred choral pieces, Witkowski has received funding for new work from the New York State Council on the Arts (for her Afro-Brazilian project, the Nossa Senhora Suite) and the Choral Arts Initiative PREMIERE|Project Festival.