Pianist, organist and music historian, Artis Wodehouse has established herself as a specialist in historic sound recordings and as a performer of new and neglected music. The New York Times has cited Artis Wodehouse as a "savior of the old and neglected." She received a DMA in piano performance practice from Stanford University where she used early sound recordings to study 19th century piano performance style. "Wodehouse is something of a pioneer in on early sound recordings," wrote The New York Times of her recital at Merkin Hall. "Her transcriptions of song improvisations recorded by [Gershwin] in the 1920s are delightful." She has recorded the electro-acoustic Invisible Cities by Michael McNabb on the Wergo Label, and music of Villa-Lobos with pianist Alfred Heller on Etcetera.

Beginning in 1982 Wodehouse has been involved with the works of George Gershwin, studying and transcribing the composer's idiosyncratic performances of his own music captured on phonograph recordings and piano rolls. Wodehouse's 1987 transcriptions of George Gershwin's solo piano Improvisations, taken from the composer's phonograph recordings is published by Warner Publications. In 1990 Wodehouse received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study Gershwin's approximately 140 piano rolls. This lead to her 1993 recording of Gershwin's restored piano rolls, Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls on the Nonesuch label, which TIME Magazine called "A remarkable example of technology put to the service of art. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that Gershwin is right in one's living room.". A tremendous commercial success, the CD has sold over a quarter million copies worldwide and landed a spot on Billboard's Top 200 chart. Complementing Gershwin Plays Gershwin, a second volume of the Gershwin: The Piano Rolls Vol. 2 was released by Nonesuch in 1995. Her edited arrangements of six of Gershwin's piano rolls, entitled Gershwin Plays Gershwin, Duets and Solo Selections From The Piano Rolls is also published by Warner Bros.

In 1997, Wodehouse completed her realizations of Jelly Roll Morton's piano rolls originally created in the 1920s. Jelly Roll Morton: The Piano Rolls, also on the Nonesuch label is an all new recording of Morton's piano roll material, edited to incorporate Morton's idiosyncratic performance style. Her accompanying transcriptions, Jelly Roll Morton Piano Rolls is published by Hal Leonard.

In 1995, Wodehouse launched as producer a series of historic CD reissues called Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era on the Pearl label. Currently available are Pauline Alpert, Dana Suesse, Arden and Ohman, Zez Confrey, Felix Arndt, Mike Bernard, Roy Bargy, Frank Banta, Rube Bloom, Vee Lawnhurst, Constance Mering, Muriel Pollock, and Raie da Costa.

Most recently, she has realized a CD on the Warner Classics label, Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores devoted to the American Jazz Age composer/pianist. Her CD is the first inclusive modern recording to show the range and scope of Confrey's music for the player piano as well as for the human performer.

In addition to a doctorate from Stanford, Wodehouse holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Yale University and a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music.