Composer Jennifer Jolley is originally from Southern California and currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her bachelor's degree at USC's Thornton School of Music and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Her composition teachers include Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, and Douglas Knehans.

Recent commissions include "Laments by the Sea" written for mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor and the Bard Orchestra under the direction of Nathan Madsen, "Motordom" for Xavier University's Symphonic Wind Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Westgate, and "The Aquarium" as part of a collaboration commemorating Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals for Cincinnati's concert:nova ensemble. Jennifer was recently awarded the 2011 Louis Rockwood Production Grant from UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) for her sound composition/installation entitled "Press Play," which will also be presented at MATA's 2011 Make Music Winter Workshop with Phil Kline. As a winner of the CCM 2011 Orchestral Composition Competition, the CCM Philharmonia will premiere her new orchestra piece in April 2012 under the direction of Mark Gibson.

Recent performances include: the AccentX and MusicX festivals, Bard College, CCM Chamber Players, concert:nova, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Midwest Composers Symposium, New Music Hartford, Ottawa New Music Creators, University of Texas at Austin, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Xavier University.

Jennifer also authors "Why Compose When You Can Blog?", a web log about contemporary composing. She teaches theory and orchestration at the University of Cincinnati and private composition lessons. For more information, please visit www.jenniferjolley.com

They came...from the FUTURE

Ive been invited to perform 60 minutes of my works as part of Cincinnatis Contemporary Arts Center cac:44 program, and for the concert have selected pieces of mine which have a science fiction theme. The program will include world premiere arias from my opera in progress, Building a Better Joshua, a near future retelling of the Narcissus myth (with a libretto by poet Kendall A) in which a woman clones an upgraded version of her husband, only to find the original man falling hard for his copy. Also, I will complete a trilogy of sound collages from movies based on Phillip K. Dick novels to be premiered at this event, and will perform two pieces from my electro-acoustic series, Sounds from the Gray Goo, named after the apocalyptic scenario involving self-replicating nanodevices drowning civilization.

What We Need & What You Get

For the ultimate They came... From the Future!!! experience to occur, wed need approximately $6000:

Musicians and artists: $4300 - this comes out to a little over a $600 average for each of the seven pieces on the program, including time spent in rehearsal and travel reimbursement split among ten principal live musicians and other local performers/artists for pre-recorded or supporting stage set portions for the works.

Sound and video technicians: $800

Instrument rental/transport: $200

Administrative/advertising costs: $700

Coming up short in funding will mean the artistic vision of the performance wont get completely realized, first by cutting out the visual staging elements of the production, second by lowering the standard of musicianship/skill of the hired performers, or finally by cutting pieces/performers from the program altogether.

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