BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Jessica Dunnavant lives, works, and plays her flutes in Nashville, TN. She is
an adjunct professor in the School of Music at Middle Tennessee State
University and an instructor for Belmont Academy, in addition to maintaining
a large private studio and active performing life.
Dr. Dunnavant has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Flute several times,
most recently at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she taught
both flute and music theory. Previously, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of
Flute at Florida State University, where she taught modern and Baroque flute
and recorder, and at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where she taught flute,
ear training and music appreciation in addition to co-directing the Early
Music Ensemble.
Dr. Dunnavant has performed with the Nashville, Jackson, Paducah,
Tallahassee and Central Wisconsin Symphonies as well as with Music City
Baroque, a Nashville-based chamber orchestra specializing in historically
imformed performance. She is the Vice-President/President-Elect of the Mid-
South Flute Society, and she has appeared as a guest artist at festivals and
universities throughout the southeast. Dr. Dunnavant and saxophonist Paula
Van Goes founded the Greenbrook Ensemble, a chamber duo specializing in
woodwind music from around the world. They are active commissioners and
arrangers of music, and they have premiered several works together,
including Liduino Pitombeira's Impressoes Sobrais and Jason Emerson's Job 39:
5. Recent performances include the International Navy Band Saxophone
Symposium and the Florida Flute Fair, and their first CD will debut in winter
2011/2012. Dr. Dunnavant's most recent project is a blog at www.
musiccollective.org.
Jessica Dunnavant holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University (B.M.
1998), Florida State University (M.M. 2000), and the University of Maryland at
College Park (D.M.A. 2004), where she completed her dissertation
Compositions for Flute by American Students of Nadia Boulanger. She was a
finalist in the Homer Ulrich Soloist Competition and is a three-time winner in
the MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition. Dr. Dunnavant has performed at the
Arts Club of Washington and at historic and cultural venues around
Washington, D.C. as a member of the Friday Morning Music Club. Her primary
teachers are Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough, Charles DeLaney, and William
Montgomery.
During her student days, Dr. Dunnavant spent four summers at the Sewanee
Summer Music Center, where she performed with the Cumberland Orchestra
and Sewanee Symphony and studied flute with Eldred Spell. In 1997, she was
a finalist in the SSMC Concerto Competition. She spent three summers working
as a music counselor at the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, and she
has been a faculty member at the Florida State University Summer Music
Camps, and more recently, the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and the
Jackson Symphony Orchestra's Summer Camp. Dr. Dunnavant has performed
in masterclasses for Susan Milan, Viviana Guzman, Michel Debost, Peter Lloyd,
Kathleen Chastain, William Bennett, Eva Amsler, Mimi Stillman and Tara Helen
O’Connor.
She can be contacted at jgdunnavant@comcast.net.
an adjunct professor in the School of Music at Middle Tennessee State
University and an instructor for Belmont Academy, in addition to maintaining
a large private studio and active performing life.
Dr. Dunnavant has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Flute several times,
most recently at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she taught
both flute and music theory. Previously, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of
Flute at Florida State University, where she taught modern and Baroque flute
and recorder, and at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where she taught flute,
ear training and music appreciation in addition to co-directing the Early
Music Ensemble.
Dr. Dunnavant has performed with the Nashville, Jackson, Paducah,
Tallahassee and Central Wisconsin Symphonies as well as with Music City
Baroque, a Nashville-based chamber orchestra specializing in historically
imformed performance. She is the Vice-President/President-Elect of the Mid-
South Flute Society, and she has appeared as a guest artist at festivals and
universities throughout the southeast. Dr. Dunnavant and saxophonist Paula
Van Goes founded the Greenbrook Ensemble, a chamber duo specializing in
woodwind music from around the world. They are active commissioners and
arrangers of music, and they have premiered several works together,
including Liduino Pitombeira's Impressoes Sobrais and Jason Emerson's Job 39:
5. Recent performances include the International Navy Band Saxophone
Symposium and the Florida Flute Fair, and their first CD will debut in winter
2011/2012. Dr. Dunnavant's most recent project is a blog at www.
musiccollective.org.
Jessica Dunnavant holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University (B.M.
1998), Florida State University (M.M. 2000), and the University of Maryland at
College Park (D.M.A. 2004), where she completed her dissertation
Compositions for Flute by American Students of Nadia Boulanger. She was a
finalist in the Homer Ulrich Soloist Competition and is a three-time winner in
the MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition. Dr. Dunnavant has performed at the
Arts Club of Washington and at historic and cultural venues around
Washington, D.C. as a member of the Friday Morning Music Club. Her primary
teachers are Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough, Charles DeLaney, and William
Montgomery.
During her student days, Dr. Dunnavant spent four summers at the Sewanee
Summer Music Center, where she performed with the Cumberland Orchestra
and Sewanee Symphony and studied flute with Eldred Spell. In 1997, she was
a finalist in the SSMC Concerto Competition. She spent three summers working
as a music counselor at the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, and she
has been a faculty member at the Florida State University Summer Music
Camps, and more recently, the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and the
Jackson Symphony Orchestra's Summer Camp. Dr. Dunnavant has performed
in masterclasses for Susan Milan, Viviana Guzman, Michel Debost, Peter Lloyd,
Kathleen Chastain, William Bennett, Eva Amsler, Mimi Stillman and Tara Helen
O’Connor.
She can be contacted at jgdunnavant@comcast.net.
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