Darby Dizard’s lyrics and music straddle the jazz, pop, theater, and classical worlds.  She wrote words for Israel, John Carisi’s classic made famous by Miles Davis.  She has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to La Fenice, and Saint Patrick’s Cathedral to CBGB’s.  Ms Dizard is known to be a leading interpreter of the vocal works of Duke Ellington.  In 2007 at a performance of Such Sweet Thunder by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, she wrote and sang lyrics for two movements.  In a concert for Duke Ellington’s 100th birthday at Cleveland’s Severance Hall she performed the operatic role in A Drum is a Woman and the blues singer in My People.  She has recently finished her latest Jazz CD, Down For You, which has received great critical acclaim.  Darby also has Silent Night, a CD of Classical Christmas music, in her catalogue.  She has been an Adjunct Professor of music at City College of New York, received a Meet the Composer Grant from New York State Counsel on the Arts, and is a five time winner of the ASCAP’s Writer’s Award.