Gina Meyer Pruitt grew up in a musical family and gave her first performance at the age of 4. She soloed with an orchestra at age 12.  She received a Masters degree in performance at  University of Texas at Austin and also studied at the University of Southern California and the Aspen Music Festival with the internationally acclaimed pianist John Perry.  She has been the winner of numerous awards as well as producing award winning students. She studied jazz with recording artists Milcho Leviev and Charlie Shoemake and arranging with television and film composer Ken Miller in Los Angeles. Other mentor friends include Gene Harris and Billy Childs.  She has performed with jazz artists Bill Watrous, Louis Bellson, Red Rodney, Allen Vizzuti, Carl Fontana, and Bunky Green. In Denver she has appeared in a variety of settings including long running stints at the Adams Mark and Inverness hotels. Composition credits include a commission to arrange a Duke Ellington medley for the Lafayette Chorale and 35 collections and arrangements for piano.  GinaPruittBooks.com  

She recently presented concerts and clinics at the University of Wyoming, the Gene Harris Jazz Festival in Idaho, the Colorado State Music Teachers Association convention and Metro State College in Denver.  She has been on the piano faculties of Colorado Christian University, Boise State University and California State University Dominguez Hills.