Jessica Oddie
Having played the violin since age 5, Jessica Oddie has studied with James Maurer, Emeritus Professor of Violin at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver for the last six years.
Jessica participated in All State-Orchestra, Western States Orchestra, and been concert mistress of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra (DYAO) since 2004. In 2006, Jessica won the Fort Collins National Young Artist Competition, performing the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto with the Roky Mountain Youth Orchestra. In 2007 she won the DYAO concerto competition, performing the second Prokofiev Violin Concerto, and the CSO's Jeff Bradley Young Musicians Award soloing with the CSO on New Year's Eve playing the Sibelius violin concerto.
She has also soloed with the Conservatory Orchestra of Music in the Mountains and the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has performed on KVOD in their program A Year with Young Artists.
Last summer she went on tour with DYAO to Argentina and Uruguay and returned to study at the Quartet Program with Charles Castleman. Jessica just graduated from High School and is a National Merit Scholar, and is a candidate for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Last year she studied violin performance with Sylvia Rosenberg at The Juilliard School of Music.
In the fall she will continue her studies at Yale University. Jessica has performed numerous times for MCMAA Concert & Art Display Series.