Cindy Wittenberg
Cindy Keller Wittenberg, Lititz, Pennsylvania, grew up in Buffalo Springs, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania where her musician mother taught her to play 4-part harmony on the piano at the age of four. Accompanying school and church choirs, instrumentalists and vocalists has been a major part of her vocation since third grade.
She earned a B.S. degree in music education at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA and a Master's degree in Piano Performance at Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland. She taught keyboard theory to high school pianists in the Peabody Preparatory Department and public school (middle school) vocal and classroom music Penn Manor School District, Lancaster County, PA.
She was a member of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra for ten years and also pianist at Manor Brethren in Christ Church in Mountville, PA, where she accompanied choir and created special music and accompaniments with praise band on piano and keyboard for eight years.
Accompanying musicians professionally in concerts, auditions, musicals, and contests have been her main performance avenues. After 35 years of teaching and coaching other pianists, she retired from the pedagogical world to write, record, and perform full-time with Silver, Wood & Ivory.
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