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Deanna Witkowski
May 10 @ 7:00 pm
$20
Award-winning pianist and author Deanna Witkowski will perform a solo concert to cap off Café CODA’s special four-part tribute to the legendary jazz musician Mary Lou Williams on the occasion of her 115th birthday.
Ms. Witkowski is one of America’s foremost interpreters of, and authorities on, the music of Ms. Williams. Witkowski’s 2022 album of Ms. Williams’ music, Force of Nature, reached #5 on the JazzWeek nationwide radio chart and remained in the top 10 most played albums on jazz radio for over 10 weeks, and her book, Mary Lou Williams: Music For The Soul,won the 2022 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award and the 2022 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Biography of the Year.
Ms. Witkowski has presented at the Kennedy Center, Duke University, and Fordham University, and performed Williams’ compositions as a featured guest with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
This concert is sponsored by Madison Music Collective and Madison Jazz Society.
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