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American pianist Manon Hutton-DeWys has long been earning praise and recognition for her performances of classical and modern music. In Musical America, Christian Carey wrote: "Hutton-DeWys did an admirable job creating legato lyricism in a solo line that resides amidst a tremendously active accompaniment. Her sensitive dynamic shadings and subtle use of rubato demonstrated an artist possessing a great deal of promise." Hutton-DeWys has performed in some of classical music's best-known venues, including Weill and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall and the Salle Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. She has also recently appeared at Symphony Space, Bargemusic, Steinway Hall, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Northeastern and Tufts Universities, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, home to radio station WNYC.

Having a strong interest in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Hutton-DeWys has premiered works by many living composers, both established and emerging. Most notably, she gave the U.S. premiere of Arvo Pärt's "Pari Intervallo", and in 2010, she was invited by Joan Tower to perform Tower's Piano Concerto with the Bard College Orchestra. She appears frequently as a guest artist with New York-based ensembles Lunatics at Large and the Mimesis Ensemble.

Hutton-DeWys has won top prizes at a number of competitions, including Five Towns and Keys to the Future. She was a finalist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's controversial 2012 Concerto Competition, for which no winner was chosen. She has also competed against musicians from non-classical genres: She was the Bronx borough champion in radio station WNYC's first "Battle of the Boroughs" competition, in which she appeared alongside jazz, rock, gospel, and hip-hop artists from every borough in New York City.

Hutton-DeWys is a graduate of Mannes College of Music (M.M. '09), where she was a student of Jerome Rose, Bard College, where she was a student of German Diez (B.A. '06), and Simon's Rock College of Bard (A.A. '03). She was the recipient of many awards at Bard, including the Margaret Creal Shaefer Memorial Prize in music, the Reader's Digest Foundation Scholarship, and the Dr. Richard M. Siegel Memorial Prize in music. She was also a two-time winner of the Bard College Concerto Competition, and as a result played with the Bard College Orchestra, conducted by James Bagwell and the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein. In September, 2012, she will begin work on her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the City University of New York's Graduate Center as a student of Thomas Sauer.

A native of New York's beautiful Hudson River Valley, Hutton-DeWys currently works as a teacher and freelance pianist in New York City. She is on the piano faculty of Greenwich House Music School and is a member of the executive board of the Piano Teachers' Congress of New York.