Deborah Gilwood regularly performs as a soloist and a chamber musician. With her longtime duo partner, cellist Arthur Cook, she founded the Blue Door Chamber Music series on Cape Cod. Their recording, Censored by Hitler, the Rediscovered Masterpieces, was released on the Centaur label. In addition to teaching at Mt. Holyoke, Gilwood has taught piano at Smith College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Seton Hall University in NJ, and Westfield State University.