Biography Jessica Sherer Flutist
Flutist Jessica Sherer, a Valdosta, GA native, made her solo debut at age 15 performing Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor for Two Violins and Orchestra with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra.  This was also one of her last performances on the violin, as she decided to shift her focus to the flute.  Two years later, she became the youngest member of the VSO, and that same year was a featured soloist at the Georgia Music Educators’ Association Annual Convention in Savannah, GA.
 
"A Magnificent Performance!"
 
-Legendary Flutist
Robert Willoughby
Since then Jessica has taken on a wide array of projects, ranging from performances in pit orchestras of musicals like Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to preparing a lecture-recital on Robert Beaser’s Mountain Songs for Flute and Guitar, and a series of performances of George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for electric flute, electric cello, and electric piano. 
 
An avid supporter of new music, Jessica’s recent premieres include Rick Applin’s Wallace Steven’s Songs, Eva Kendrick’s new song cycle, Shining, and a commissioned work, also by Kendrick, entitled Nine Years, Two Miles: a Fantasy for Flute and Piano.  She has also performed with several new music ensembles, including Longitude, the new music ensemble at the Longy School of Music, and the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble, a group dedicated to performing contemporary vocal works, in residence at Berklee College of Music.
 
Jessica has performed with numerous orchestras, including the New World Symphony, Boston Civic Orchestra, the Portland Columbia Symphony, the Miami Beach Symphony, the Newton (MA) Symphony, and the Symphony of the Americas.  She has also performed solo, chamber, and larger ensemble concerts extensively throughout New England and the South, including performances at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge), the TSAI Performance Center (Boston), Pickman Hall (Cambridge), and Lincoln Theater (Miami).
 
Jessica holds a B.M. magna cum laude from Boston University, and a M.M. with distinction from the Longy School of Music, where she was the recipient of the Elise Coolidge Hall Women In Music Scholarship.   Her principal teachers include Robert Willoughby, Laura Gilbert, Eva Amsler, Linda Toote, Marianne Gedigian, Trygve Peterson, and Elizabeth Goode, and she has performed in masterclasses with Carol Wincenc, Christina Smith, Judith Mendenhall, Philip Dikeman, Amy Porter, Eric Hoover, Shaul Ben-Mier, and Elizabeth Ostling.  Jessica, whose students have consistently earned superior ratings at local and regional festivals, is currently a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
 
 
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