Born in Brasil, and a daughter of missionary parents, Denice Raymundo Grant began her musical studies at the age of four. In 1973 her family moved to Portugal, and she had the opportunity to study at the Lisbon National Conservatory, and thanks to another move in 1975 to Canada, at the Toronto Royal Conservatory. Mrs. Grant went on to pursue a BM in Voice and Piano performance at Walla Walla College, where she studied piano with Leonard Richter and voice with Marianne Scriven. She received a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Northern Illinois University, where she was a student of Donald Walker. After moving to Seattle in 1990, Denice was employed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet as company pianist, and then by the Houston Ballet in the year 2000. Since returning from Houston in 2002, she started a piano and vocal teaching studio, is involved in chamber music, and has accompanied several professional choruses in the area, some of which include the Bellevue Chamber Chorus, the Northwest Girl Choir, the Choir of the Sound, and The Seattle Choral Company, with whom she recorded Carmina Burana in 1999. She was the organist at Shoreline Calvin Presbyterian Church from 2002 to 2007. She has also worked with the Seattle Opera, the Seattle Symphony Chorus, the Bellevue Symphony, and the Intiman Theatre. Denice has appeared as solo pianist with the Rainier Symphony, the Port Angeles Symphony, and the Seattle Philharmonic, and in March of 2008 she will perform with the Skagit Symphony in Mt. Vernon. In December of 2006 she released a sacred vocal CD titled "If My People Who are Called by Name Shall Pray..." Denice is currently enrolled at the University of Washington pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts program in Piano performance and is studying with Craig Sheppard. Denice and her husband Ozzie live in Burlington; they have four children and two grand children.
