Anita Andrews grew up in the intermountain West and California. She is a magna cum laude piano performance graduate of Brigham Young University where she received highest honors from the Honors Program and was pianist for the BYU Oratorio Choir. . While at BYU, she accompanied in vocal and instrumental studios and participated in chamber music. A member of BYU’s first Salzburg semester abroad, she studied piano at the Mozarteum and accompanied the BYU chamber choir that toured Europe that year.

Subsequent study (including organ work) was in Cleveland and Atlanta, where she established piano studios and performed frequent solo and collaborative recitals. She was pianist at Temple Emanu-El in Atlanta and performed with faculty members at Georgia State University.

Long active in the Music Teachers National Association, she is a permanently certified NCTM. In Georgia, her students won top prizes in festivals and competitions and many of them participated in the prestigious “Governor’s Honors” all expense paid 6-week summer concentrated piano program. Quite a few of her students have majored in piano at the University level.

Before moving to Utah to be closer to her family, she spent 18 months in Berlin, Germany, doing volunteer service.

Now an adjunct piano instructor at UVU, she is the mother of seven children and grandmother (as of this date) of twenty-three grandchildren, most of whom live in Utah Valley. She weekly teaches 14 of the grandchildren ---all of the ones who are old enough to make music