Heavyn Dyer-Jones

Heavyn Dyer-Jones is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in Piano Performance. From being a guest performer at Lincoln Center in New York, to the stages of Kresge Hall at Interlochen Camp, Heavyn has experienced performance not only in the medium of piano performance, but of voice, visual art, and poetry. She is a First Wave scholar as well as an Elsa Pool Scholar with the UW Madison Mead Witter School of Music. As of late, Heavyn has made a point in studying underrepresented classical composers in particular, and building her professional repertoire with a spectrum of classical pieces and composers that are often overlooked. Since being accepted into UW-Madison's First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship program, she has expanded her artistic and creative interests into the musicology of world music, or Ethnomusicology, and hopes to continue to learn and grow within her community.

• Global Gateway Summer 2022 Scholar, 01/2022 - 01/2023
• Copenhagen, Denmark & Paris, France - Study Abroad Course on African American Expats in Copenhagen and Denmark (Professor E. Whitmire - UW Madison)
• Tangled up in Blue - UW Madison's Premier treble Acappella Group Member, 2023-2024
• OMAI First Wave Scholarship Recipient
• UW Madison Mead Witter School of Music - Elsa Pool Scholarship Recipient
• CIEE Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient DIS Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient
• GRADE 12 (2020-21) - Invited to guest perform/speak at the NAACP (Ann Arbor Branch) Annual "Freedom Fund" Dinner ; Inducted into the National Thespian SocietyHigh School Collegiate Invited Performer for Creative Arts Awards (2022 & 2023)
• GRADE 11 (2019-20) - Nominated & Served as one of two executive directors in the Communications, Media, and Public Policy Magnet at SHS; Nominated to sit in on a private administrative interview in regards to a new open staff position ; Served as the only student evaluator weighing in on the decision ; Actively Participated in SHS Black Student Union ; Accompanied a classical vocalist at SHS Annual Choral Spring Concert (Performed "I, Too by Margaret Bonds); Traveled/Performed with Skyline Blues to Compete in the International Competition of High School A cappella Finals in New York City - Placed 2nd in the Nation ; Academically Invited into the NSHSS (NationalSociety of High School Scholars)

Jessica Johnson, +1 (608) 438-5241, jgjohnson@wisc.edu

• Music & Art Therapy Research
• Ethnomusicology
• Collaborative & Interdisiplinary Arts
• Piano Pedagogy