Los Angeles based orchestral and chamber musician Dr. Jennifer Stevenson has received commissions from the Central Oregon Symphony, the Cascade Horizon Band, Whistling Hens, the Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, the LA Musical Salon, and private artists from around the globe. Her piece for Soprano and Clarinet won 1st place in the 2021 Darkwater Festival Composition Competition and is up for Grammy® consideration: Best Contemporary Classical Composition, 2023
Jennifer is also a multiple recipient of Meet the Composer’s Creative Connections grant and received an American Composers Forum SUBITO Grant through the San Francisco and Los Angeles chapters. A CD of her Musical Adventures, musical stories for children, was released through Tessella Music.
Her works for chamber ensemble have been premiered at the Chicago Civic Center as part of the New Artists in Chicago Festival, the International Clarinet Association’s convention in Ostend, Belgium, and at multiple new music festivals, including the Fresno New Music Festival.
Jennifer received her BM from DePaul University, where she studied with Larry Combs and her MM from Rice University, where she studied with Dr. Michael Webster. She received her Doctorate from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Yehuda Gilad. In addition to teaching courses in music and paraprofessional counseling at the University of Southern California, Jennifer has served as an instructor and coach at the American Festival for the Arts and the Idyllwild School for the Arts.