Edith Gutierrez is a pianist and composer from Houston, Texas. She was born in 1914 and grew up in a musical family where her mother was a musician and piano teacher. With her second husband, Patricio Gutierrez, she established Greenbriar Music Studios in 1951, where she was a private piano instructor for 15 years. She has continued teaching following the death of her husband. Express Theater, based in Houston has commissioned Gutierrez to write and compose three music theater works since 1991, the most recent of which, Pocahontas, will premiere in June of 1994. She is a member of Professional Musicians Association, American College of Musicians, Houston Music Teachers Association, Inc., Texas Music Teachers Association, and Music Teachers National Association. For the 1993 season she was the resident pianist at Kuumba House, a summer fine arts program in Houston.
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