Virtual Visits and Residencies

As of 2020, she has given many of the below workshops virtually where K-12, college, and adult students can interact with an experienced Teaching Artist to develop improvisation and compositional skills via an engaging Zoom experience.

College and adult students can also acquire business skills to be the best advocates for their careers, both inside and outside the arts.

Workshops have been given for the students at the Berkeley Caroll, Dwight Englewood, and North Broward Preparatory schools, for the NEXT Festival of Emerging Artists, Virtuosity Online, Wintertrios, and various Conservatories and Universities around the country.

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In-Person Visits

When traveling, Jessica always strives to connect to a particular community as deeply as possible with the various types of performance/educational work that she does.

Residencies can often include:

  • Performances of her solo show Sounds of Being for different kinds of audiences, from the concert hall to an addiction recovery center
  • A performance of a composition written for others
  • Interactive workshops/concerts for children
  • Interactive workshops/concerts for college-age students or adults who are or are not musicians

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

For Musicians Young and Old

Masterclasses for all skill levels

Improvisation for Beginners: 
Awakening your Inner Composer

Networking 101:
Conversation Boot Camp for the
21st Century Musician

Mapping for Success:
Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Artist

Speaking from the Stage:
How to connect to any audience

For the General Public

Tales & Tunes:
Making Music to Tell a Story (Children)

Channeling your Innate Creativity (Adults)

Entrepreneurship:
Making your Avocation your Vocation

Networking 101:
Laugh, Learn, and Connect to Build the Life you Want

Passionate about education

Ms. Meyer is equally known for her inspirational work as an educator, where she not only teaches technique and interpretation, but also empowers musicians with networking, communication, teaching, and entrepreneurial skills so they can be the best advocates for their own careers. Her workshops have been featured at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, for the Teaching Artists of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music, the Longy School of Music, NYU, the Chamber Music America Conference, and at various universities around the country. Jessica has conducted hundreds of workshops for students and adults for Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor, the Little Orchestra Society, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She has also spent years training the musicians of tomorrow to connect with any community of today.

She is most passionate about getting musicians of all ages off the page to activate their own creativity, improvise, and awaken their own inner composer – which in turn makes them better performers. In addition to teaching virtual workshops, live engagements have been for the Moab Music Festival, the National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall, for the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, and in residencies where her music is programmed. For two years, she created and led a Teen Composer Intensive at New England Music Camp so that teens of all abilities can develop their craft, amass recordings for their portfolio, and connect with both professional and student performers. For the past few summers, she served as the Composer in Residence for the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival at The Juilliard School and led their Emerging Composer Program.

Currently, she serves on the viola and chamber music faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, training students on becoming the best version of their artistic selves while learning how to build a life in music.

REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS

Meyer’s fierce-edged playing activated the Tank’s awe-inspiring properties.

Most notable of all, though, is Meyer’s bravura playing…..is by turns fierce and lyrical.

Meyer’s album is a true contribution to the repertoire of programmatic music, providing a soundscape to the abstract musings we experience every day…Just as the human psyche is prone to conflict, chaos, and occasional harmony, its musical representation, envisioned by Meyer, is a resounding potpourri of styles.

(Album Ring Out) In which supremely talented violist Meyer reveals herself as a delightfully varied, and emotionally connected, composer…. if you listen to Ring Out you’ll likely be waiting with bated breath for more.

Perceptive, positive, proactive, productive, pragmatic and thoroughly professional; that is how I describe Jessica Meyer’s approach to living as an energetic and caring musician in today’s world. Her intelligence and effervescent personality truly inspires and leads us to be our best selves.

Heidi Castleman, Viola Faculty – The Juilliard School

Jessica Meyer is a teaching artist of the highest order. The same sophistication, accessibility, generosity, fun and clarity we celebrate in her musicianship radiates from her work as an educator. She innately understands teaching and learning in and through music, and has developed her skills to such a high degree that she can apply them to a wide variety of settings and audiences—lighting up a workshop, a classroom, and even an audience with her interactive concerts. If you want to see what a great teaching artist can do, hire Jessica and then stand back.

Eric Booth
National Arts Learning Consultant, Author of The Music Teaching Artist’s Bible