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Debussy Reverie 1:200:00/1:20
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Feels Like Home 4:230:00/4:23
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Harbor 3:050:00/3:05
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0:00/4:59
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Oh, Legs! 2:460:00/2:46
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Song for US 3:080:00/3:08
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Orphan Moonlight 1:050:00/1:05
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Brookman's Road 4:050:00/4:05
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One Last Time 3:210:00/3:21
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I am not I 4:380:00/4:38
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Tiumba 4:120:00/4:12
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If these Bones 2:430:00/2:43
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See you in a Song 3:500:00/3:50


Cynthia Marie Dillard is a pianist, songwriter, & teacher with a background in classical, jazz, blues, and folk music. She is a Honolulu Symphony Best and Brightest concerto competition winner, Berklee College of Music summer performance program songwriter showcase winner, and a graduate of the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, WA with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. She studied classical piano with Bonnie Litten and Ann Tanabe, boogie-woogie piano with Caroline Dahl, and jazz piano with Debbie Poryes.
She is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award, Jackstraw Artist-in-Residency, and Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs’ Smart Ventures grant. She has produced two full-length albums and an EP of original music, and was a commissioned composer for Gamelan Pacifica and Washington Women in Jazz Festival. Her music has been performed on a variety of radio programs including WERA.FM, Voices from the DMV, FEMchord, DC Music Rocks, Takoma Radio, Hometown Sounds, and NPR'S WAMU Bandwidth. She has been featured regularly in The 9 Songwriters’ Series, Columbia Lakefront Concerts, Takoma Park Folk Festival, and she has performed at favorite DMV venues such as: Pearl Street Warehouse, Jammin’ Java, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Black Cat and Ebenezer's Coffeehouse. She is a member of ASCAP.
As a collaborator, she appears as pianist and/or vocalist, songwriter, or producer on a discography of over 19 recordings with artists from coast to coast such as Jason Masi, Jenny Terry, Elena & Los Fulanos, Jahnel Daliya, Summer Januaries, & Steve Olof Larson. As an arranger, she has published over 35 sheet music arrangements sold internationally on Sheet Music Plus, and she is the author of a new piano primer, Piano Studio with Cynthia Marie.
She has performed her songs in Seattle, DC, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, NC, throughout Maryland, Virginia, and in Breschia, Italy. She resides in Maryland, where she enjoys teaching piano to her students at Mike’s Music in Ellicott City and at her Columbia Piano Studio. She has served as faculty of Washington Women in Jazz Festival's Jazz Girls Day for the past 2 years. She is a Maryland state certified teacher, and a member of the Music Teachers National Association, Maryland MTA, and Howard County MTA.