Jennie Dorris
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I’m a musician best known for my interdisciplinary collaborations and entrepreneurship. I’m dedicated to making classical music — especially contemporary classical — thrive with new audiences. I am the founder of Telling Stories, a radio program on public radio that features classical chamber music and original essays. Telling Stories expanded to host an annual interdisciplinary  education program at the Denver School of the Arts, which was recently featured on From the Top. 

Orchestral experience: I’ve performed Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s Notes in the Neighborhood program, New England Philharmonic, Mercury Orchestra, Colorado Ballet, Colorado Music Festival, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, and Greeley Philharmonic, as well as the Mercury Ensemble and the Colorado Chamber Music.

Chamber music experience: I’ve performed with Resonance Works, Guardians of Sound, the Seraphic Singers, Alia Musica, Crusic Percussion, the Brass Roots, Shelter Music Boston, Telling Stories, Mountain Chamber Music Society, Suonare, Boulder Brass, and Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Education: I received my Bachelor’s in Music at Drake University, studying with Robert Meunier, and my Master’s in Music at the University of Colorado-Boulder, studying with Dr. Douglas Walter.

Take a Listen

Etude for a Quiet Hall (with original narration by Nicole Riner) 

Michi by Keiko Abe

Kembang Suling by Gareth Farr, movement 1.

’81 by Joanna Newsom, arranged by Chris Jusell

A Little Prayer by Evelyn Glennie, arranged by Barry Kardon and Jennie Dorris

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Musical Jukebox

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I completed a six-month residency at the Hillman Cancer Center where I performed a program called Musical Jukebox. We asked patients to identify an emotion they are feeling or would like to hear, and I played pieces I identify with that emotion. But then we thought -- hey, wouldn't it be nice for patients to be able to listen to this music any time, not just once a month? Thanks to the kindness of many of the music publishers, a grant from the Beckwith Institute, Wei Lim, audio engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, and Dr. Lanie Francis, who helped dream up this type of arts integration, here is the first installment of Musical Jukebox: 

Joy: 
"Allemande" by Dan Levitan from Baroque Suite  © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
 "Sarabande" by Dan Levitan from Baroque Suite  © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
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​"Bourree I and II" by Dan Levitan from ​Baroque Suite  © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
Soothe: 
"Chant" by Mitchell Peters
Divine
"Amazing Grace" (trad) ​
Groove
"Ghanaia" by Matthias Schmitt. © Copyright Norsk Musikforlag, Oslo, Norway (musikkforlagene.no). Used with permission.
Simplicity
"Sweet Dreams" from Album for the Young, Peter Tchaikovsky. Arr. Lee Howard Stevens © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
"The Doll's Burial" from Album for the Young, Peter Tchaikovsky. Arr. Lee Howard Stevens © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
​"The New Doll" from Album for the Young, Peter Tchaikovsky. Arr. Lee Howard Stevens © Keyboard Percussion Publications by Marimba Productions Inc.
Storm
"Michi" by Keiko Abe

Here's a little video of me talking about how I see Chant affecting patients, and a quick thought about how I've seen music intersect with health. Video: Wei Lim  Recording engineers: William Middleton, Steven Krenn, Riccardo Schulz Recording date: Wednesday November 18 2015 Recording location: Vlahakis Recording Studio, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University
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