Saxophonist, Dr. Jennifer Bill performs solo and chamber music with a variety of groups around southern New England, including the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet (www.backbayquartet.com). She has performed contemporary chamber music with a variety of artists including vocalists, clarinetists, cellists, flutists, taped media, percussionists and dancers. Currently she is working with a visual artist (Linnea) in the experimentation of the auralvisual in a collaboration named BRUSHREED. She has participated in numerous premiers for saxophone including Shift Shaf by Claudio Gabriele and Dreams for Mazes and Sax Quartet by David Krebs in 2009, Reflection by Michael Kregler in 2007, The Miraculous Tale for saxophone and derabucca by Halim El-Dabh as part of World-Wide Concurrent Premieres in 2007, and works by Howard Frazin and Shih-Hui Chen as part of Worldwide Concurrent Premieres in 2005. In December of 2005, Dr. Bill was a guest soloist with the Boston University Wind Ensemble, performing John Harbison's San Antonio. She has participated in national and world conferences including the World Saxophone Congress in 2003, the North American Saxophone Alliance national conference in 2000 and the North American Saxophone Alliance regional conference in 2005.
Dr. Bill is currently a Lecturer in Saxophone at Boston University (saxophone, chamber music, and class woodwinds), a Special Lecturer in Music at Providence College (conductor of symphonic winds, theory, ear training, music appreciation, saxophone, and chamber music), and a Faculty member at The Boston Conservatory (liaison between Boston Conservatory and the Boston Arts Academy). She is the saxophone instructor, wind ensemble coordinator, and saxophone workshop assistant director for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Dr. Bill also serves on the Board of Directors for World-Wide Concurrent Premiers and Commissioning Funds, Inc.
Dr. Bill received her education from Providence College (BA), The Boston Conservatory (MM) and Boston University (MusAD). Her teachers have included Kenneth Radnofsky, Christopher Kelton and Carrie Koffman.
Along with her musical passions Dr. Bill is also an athlete and a coach. She captained her Division I ice hockey team during her undergraduate time at Providence College and was an assistant coach for Northeastern University’s women’s ice hockey team from 2001 to 2004. She also coached ice hockey camps and clinics for young players from 1997-2006.
