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

Jessica has conducted hundreds of workshops for students and adults on behalf of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor, the Little Orchestra Society, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s over the years. Currently, she is most passionate about getting young classical musicians off the page to activate their own creativity, improvise, and awaken their own inner composer well before their college years. Her most recent engagements have been for the Moab Music Festival, the National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall, the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, and Juilliard’s International Summer Program. This past summer, Jessica launched 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.

Ms. Meyer is committed to presenting workshops and coachings that empower fellow 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, the Manhattan School of Music, the Longy School of Music, NYU, for the Teaching Artists of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Music America Conference, and at various conservatories and universities around the country.

Jessica is also often hired as a catalyst to help forge better relationships between arts organizations and their surrounding communities, and has worked as an education consultant/clinician for Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School around the world. For Carnegie Hall she worked with community organizations in New Orleans and El Paso as part of their Play USA El Sistema-inspired partnerships, she was the principal educational consultant in the Middle East for The Juilliard School, and also facilitated the #Quartweet Residency between the Princeton Symphony, the Signum Quartet, the Isles Youth Institute, and surrounding elementary schools. This past year, she was announced the winner of the 2nd Annual Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer’s Award, which will include a commission for the Bangor Symphony in 2022, preceded by workshops and community engagements presented throughout the surrounding area.

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