Lisa Downing has lived in the Denver, Colorado area all of her life and has been actively performing piano in the Denver area since 1982.Lisa has been fascinated by the piano since the first time she saw one when she was two years old. Her family didn't own a piano at that time, so as she got older, she spent her creative abilities trying to fabricate a piano from cardboard boxes. Soon, her parents saw the desire she had for music and bought their first console piano when she was 10 years old.She studied privately with several teachers as a young girl including Blanche Button and Bill Alexander.Lisa attended school in the Cherry Creek School district since she was in 5th grade and graduated from Cherry Creek High School in 1977. Lisa began teaching piano that year focusing with her students on progressive harmony, improvisation, composition and jazz.She took a year off from her own academic studies and then attended the University of Colorado at Denver and Metropolitan State College simultaneously to