Founder/Executive Director/Lead Teaching Artist

Jessica spent the first decade of her professional life in Los Angeles where she worked as a freelance cellist and educator. Her musical adventures included touring, performing, and recording with artists including Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Devotchka, The Eels, FUN, Trevor Hall, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Dave Matthews, Sheila Nicholls, Linda Ronstadt, Spiritualized, Corin Tucker, Steve Vai, Vitamin String Quartet, Rebekah Jordan, Dreaming Ferns, VOCO, Wailin' Jennys, Scott Weiland, and Wilco. She has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, NBC Music Video Awards, Coachella Music Festival, and has been a soloist for feature films Mean Creek, The Strangers, The Covenant, and Levity.

Jessica was the first Sound-Artist-in-Residence at the UCLA Hammer Museum creating sound installations and performances inspired by the museum's collection of Ed Ruscha works. She has worked as a collaborator with notable visual artists, composers, and performance artists such as Harold Budd, Mike Kelley, Pauline Oliveros, Stephen Prina, Susan Silton, and James Tenney. Jessica has studied cello with Joanna de Keyser, Eugene Friesen, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Benusis, Joan Jenrenaud, Rushad Eggelston, and Natalie Haas.

As an educator, Jessica was the Lead Teaching Artist of Cello for YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), a partnership of the Harmony Project and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Her students have had the fortune of playing with LA Phil musicians, Stevie Wonder, Journey, The Black Eyed Peas, performing on the Tonight Show, playing the Super Bowl Half-time Show with Beyonce, Coldplay, and Bruno Mars, and traveling to the White House to play for Michelle Obama, Alisa Weilerstein, and Joshua Bell.

Jessica has lead teaching workshops at the University of Auckland (NZ), Universidad de Bogota (Columbia), Western Front (Vancouver, BC), University of Nebraska - Omaha, Cornish College, University of New Mexico, Lake Tahoe Unified, Port Chester (NY), Community Music Works (RI), and the California State Summer School for the Arts.

In Missoula, Jessica Founded and Directs Grow Music Missoula, Missoula Crescendo Club, Co-Directs The Receptionists string ensemble and is an occasional member of the String Orchestra of the Rockies. She has participated in artist-residencies with Open Air and New Songs for Butte Mining Camp, and the UCLA Hammer Museum.

Outside of music, Jessica and her sweetie, Jeremy, are raising two incredible youngsters. Together, they enjoy family game nights, sauntering the woods, attending primitive skills gatherings, diving into diy house projects, finding reuse in everything, composting, serving 2 cats and 6 hens, and giving group hugs.