A native of Florida, Jennifer received her Bachelors of Music magna cum laude from the University of South Florida and her Masters of Music from The Boston Conservatory. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate in Contemporary Peformance at the University of California in San Diego with a full scholarship. Her principal teachers include Joan Markstein, Scott Kluksdahl, Charles Curtis, and Rhonda Rider, founding member of the Lydian String Quartet.
Jennifer is a devoted champion of the music of our generation and is involved in the work of many emerging young composers. As a result of her collaborations, she has premiered many works including Drew Cutler’s Authentic Interruption for cello and percussion (2007), Daniel Frantz’s Sech Kleine Tanze for solo cello (2008), and Mischa Salkind-Pearl’s In the Morning Light Gathered at My Window for solo cello (2010). Other composers she has had the privilege to work with include Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Sydney Timpson, Patricia Alessandrini, Stephen Goss, Chaya Czernowin, Kenji Bunch, Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, and David Del Tredici.
She has also participated in Sound Encounters, SICPP, Oregon Bach Festival: Composer’s Symposium, and Music from Salem: the Cello Seminar modern music festivals, as a guest soloist for the Robert Helps Festival and International Composition Competition, and was the 2010 Performance Prizewinner at the soundSCAPE festival in Italy.
Jennifer is an enthusiastic chamber musician and is currently the cellist of Diagenesis with vocalist Heather Barnes. She is also founding member of the Bricolage Quartet, formerly in residence as the Boston Conservatory Honors String Quartet.
She is an advocate of “adventurous concert going” and her fresh and genuine sound focuses on inviting her audience to open their minds to a new experience, no matter how established or unknown the repertoire.