Westfield Symphony Orchestra

James Jeter, Bassoon

James Jeter performs as a professional freelance bassoonist in New York City and has an international reputation as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and recording artist, having performed in Asia, Europe and South America. He has performed principal bassoon with the Westfield Symphony for several seasons. The Carnegie Hall Corporation sponsored Mr. Jeter in a solo recital as part of its "Debuts and Encores" series in 1985, and he has been a featured concerto soloist with the Arcady Music Festival (ME), Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, Atlantic Sinfonietta (NY) and the Biel Symphony (Switzerland). He has also been featured solo recitalist at two International Double Reed Society Conferences; at Northwestern University in 1997 and in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000. He founded the Virtuosi Quintet in 1983 and has toured nationally with the ensemble through Columbia Artists Management. Mr. Jeter has often performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Alvin Ailey Dance Co., New York City Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Berkshire Opera Company, Deep Creek Symphony (MD) and various orchestras in New York and abroad (Italy and Switzerland).

He is also principal bassoonist for Twentieth Century Unlimited (Santa Fe, NM) and the St. Cecelia Orchestra (NYC). Mr. Jeter has recorded a solo album for Crystal Records, and as solo bassoonist of the Virtuosi Quintet and the Atlantic Sinfonietta has recorded numerous CDs for Koch International Classics, Capstone Records and Musical Heritage Society. In addition to a busy freelance schedule, he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts at the State University of New York-Stony Brook in May, 2000. He also holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Music from The Juilliard School. His teachers have included Harold Goltzer, Milan Turkovic, James Dickie, Sylvia Kushner, Carmine Caruso and Dennis Godburn.

Mr. Jeter teaches bassoon privately in the New York area and was an Affiliate Artist for Sarah Lawrence College. He has also taught at the Summertrios Festival (PA), Kinhaven Music School (VT) and Sewanee Summer Music Festival (TN). He was invited to perform in Bloomington, IN as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music for Indiana University's Summer Music Festival in June, 2001.

The New York Times enthused, "Mr. Jeter proved a splendid player, with dapper phrasing, a diaphanous lower register, oboe-sweet high notes and a certain Mephistophelean elegance."

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