Jazzwriter A Quiet Shore CD

, was a tenor in the men's quartet- The Southernaires and her mother, Dorothy Marks Taylor, was an accomplished violinist. At 3 ½ years of age Dotti started piano at the Caputo Conservatory of Musical Arts. At 7 years of age, she and her sister, Yvonne, were introduced to the music world in a debut concert at Carl Fischer Recital Hall (later known as Cami Hall). During this same year she was accepted into the music program at the Juilliard School of Music (Preparatory Division). She later received a B.A. in math and an M.A. in music at Queens College. Dotti has always been involved in both disciplines. In 2001 she retired from the NYC Board of Education after a 30-year career as a math teacher. During those years, she was also a performing classical and jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, copyist, transcriber and concert producer. As a pianist, she has performed in many churches and concert halls in the NYC area. She has also accompanied vocalists, instrumentalists and choruses and since 2001 has had the piano chair with the Tonal Artistes Orchestra and the Ray Abrams Big Band. She has also played with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band. She was the substitute Conductor/Pianist for the Broadway revue 'Black and Blue'. In 2004, she was the Associate Musical Director for a production of Scott Joplin's 'Treemonisha' and in 2007 was the Musical Director/Conductor of a production of that same play. In 1982 Dotti began the study of the flute. As a flutist she performed in the first Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is Musical Director/flutist for the New York Jazz Flutet, and has her own quartet and seven-piece women's ensemble, Moment Of Truth. One of her newest ventures was playing flute in concert with The Ravel Trio, a classical piano trio, during their 2005 - 2006 season. She sometimes plays both piano and flute in concerts as she did in 2004 with the Historic Dunbar Heritage Festival and Eddie Durham Tribute in San Marco, Texas and annually with the Many Colors of a W*O*M*A*N Jazz Concert in Hartford, Connecticut. She has recorded with the Ted Dunbar Quartet, Jason Lindner Big Band, Keisha St. Joan Quartet and Wendee Glick Sextet. As a composer, she has written more than 150 works and has been commissioned twice with the latest being a commission by The Ravel Trio. She is also the recipient of ...