Dr. Whitney Pizza, Piano Area Chair

DMA, Manhattan School of Music, Piano Performance
MM, University of Utah, Piano Performance
BM, University of Utah, Piano Performance

Teachers

Dr. Vera Oussetskaia Watanabe, Dr. Marc Silverman, Dr. Bonnie Gritton, Malinda Tall, Kate Rockwood

Biography

Whitney Pizza's solo performance career includes orchestral appearances with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz, Utah Philharmonic Orchestra, Murray Symphony, Utah SummerArts Festival Orchestra, Oquirrh Mountain Symphony, and Snow College Symphony Orchestra.  

As a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, Dr. Pizza has performed with Ballet West, Asia/America New Music Institute (AANMI), Salty Cricket Composers Collective, and Next Ensemble.  

Dr. Pizza is on the piano faculty at the Gifted Music School and currently serves as chair of the piano department.  She previously held adjunct faculty positions at Utah Valley University and Snow College.

She and her husband, Seth, live in South Jordan with their 1-year-old son, Samuel, and dogs, Coda and Maestro.