Debbie Hutter graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a double major in music education and piano, and a minor in saxophone. She continued her education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, receiving her Master's degree in elementary education.
 

She teaches 4th grade Elementary Band throughout the Lockport City School District, and has been teaching in Lockport since 1992. She has also served as the treasurer of the Niagara County Music Educators Association since 2001,
and her colleagues in the county chose her for the BPO Music Educator of the Year in 2024.
 

In addition to accompanying the Lock City Sound, she is the director of music at her church, responsible for directing the adult and children’s choir, and playing the organ and piano for weekly services. She has been seen in many local school and community theater pit orchestras, and occasionally accompanies students for all-state and college auditions. When she is not sitting on a piano bench Debbie enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter and son-in-law, and grandson.