Debra Ayers performs extensively as a recitalist with singers, instrumentalists, and chamber music ensembles. She has performed with singers from major opera companies; members of the American, Vega and Da Vinci string quartets, Arcadian Winds, Auros New Music Ensemble, Mercury's Players, Winsor Chamber Music Outreach, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Players, Emerald City Opera, Breckenridge Music Institute and Crested Butte Music Festival. She is pianist of MONTAGE Music Society, a new Boston-based ensemble.

A proponent of contemporary music, premieres include works by William Bolcom, Yehudi Wyner, and Daniel Schnyder, among others. Ms. Ayers is featured with soprano Ilana Davidson in a critically acclaimed Capriccio recording of Ernst Krenek Lieder. She has served as Coach/Panelist for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and as a frequent jurist for piano competitions.  She is an alumna of the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin. Her teachers include André-Michel Schub, Brooks Smith, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Martin Katz, and John Barrows. Ms. Ayers has received sponsorship from the Adele Marcus Foundation; her awards include the Norman Cousins Award and Tabor Opera House Pioneer Award.

Skilled as both performer and arts administrator, Ms. Ayers is Principal of Ayers & Associates, has worked as Director and Artist in Residence of the Colorado Mountain College Center for Excellence in the Arts and held senior positions with Crested Butte Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, American Youth Symphony and the Pro Musicis Foundation. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.