Deanna Walker-Tipps

(U.S.A.)

Deanna Walker-Tipps (born 1964) is a composer, performer, teacher, author, clinician, and adjudicator who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ms. Walker-Tipps has a Master's degree in composition from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University (1988), and a Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Eastern New Mexico University (1986). She has a studio of approximately forty piano and composition students, and works as a consultant helping piano instructors learn to teach composition.

Walker-Tipps co-authored a series of composition books for children (Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Composition Books, Levels 1-3). She travels throughout the U.S. giving clinics to piano teachers for Alfred Publishing Company. She recently adjudicated the national finals of a composition contest sponsored by the Music Teachers' National Association (MTNA--elementary through collegiate), and has been a speaker at national, division, state and local conventions of the association.

She has received numerous commissions for her compositions. She recently completed a work for saxophone, flute and piano, which was commissioned by the Research Services Council of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. One of her pieces, Suite for Two Pianos, originally commissioned by the Oklahoma Music Teachers' Association, went on to win third place in the MTNA Distinguished Composer of the Year competition, which included noted composers from more than thirty states. A concert of her works, sponsored by Living Arts of Tulsa in conjunction with the Oklahoma Arts Council, was given on April 25, 1998.

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