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    Jessica Madow

    Teaches at Meadowood: Thursdays beginning June 2019

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    Jessica loves all things keyboard. She holds advanced performance degrees in

    piano and harpsichord from USC and the University of Michigan, and spent several

    summers at the Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Performance Institute delving deeper into

    the details of baroque performance. Jessica has performed with orchestras, in solo recitals,

    in chamber music concerts, in festivals, and as solo and choral accompanist around the

    country. She has also served as organist and music director at churches in California,

    Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

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    She greatly enjoys branching out, and has played squeezebox in klezmer bands, bell 

    trees and iphones with choirs, and organ with bagpipers. She became entranced 

    with the beauty of the hammered dulcimer's sound the very first time she heard it

    at a Renaissance Fair in Southern California. Since then, she's become a highly skilled and creative hammered dulcimer player who has been featured locally with

    the Lehigh University Dolce Ensemble and the Princeton Singers in a piece by Stephen Sametz for hammered dulcimer and choir.

     

    Jessica has performed on hammered dulcimer in concerts Irish festivals, with a horse quadrille dancing around her, in art galleries, restaurants, mountaintop and riverside weddings, and with Donna Lang, another Meadowood teacher, in their duo, Miradow. Jessica loves that the hammered dulcimer (unlike grand piano and harpsichord) is an easily transportable instrument!

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    Jessica was a past PA Rural Arts Alliance Grant recipient for her project, “Bach to Blues:

    Harpsichord to Synthesizer,” which presented workshops and hands-on opportunities for

    the community to experience historical and alternative keyboard instruments as well as

    explore techniques, sounds and styles of ethnic and world music.

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    Sharing her fondness of music with her students is important to Jessica, and she strives to see each student progress and find joy in their own musical journey. She teaches children

    and adults, from beginner through advanced, in all styles of music on keyboard and hammered dulcimer. Her lessons include practical keyboard theory and technique as foundational.

     

    We are so pleased to have Jessica as one of the wonderful teachers at Meadowood.

     

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