Piano (USA)
Professor, University of California at Irvine, D. M., began her performing career at age sixteen as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra under the direction of Robert Whitney in a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor. Her teachers include Doris Owen (Bickel), Tong Il Han, Gyorgy Sebok, and Maria Curcio. She received her doctorate degree with distinction in piano performance from Indiana University under the tutelage of Menahem Pressler. Ms. Griffitt is active as a soloist and chamber musician. Her performances include appearances in New York at Carnegie “Weill Recital Hall” and a live broadcast on NPR’s “Performance Today” from Washington D.C. She began her teaching career in 1974 at DePauw University in Indiana and joined the faculty at UC Irvine in 1993.
