Jennifer Reeves

Three days after performing for UNL’s Graduate Concerto Competition and being selected as a winner, clarinetist Jennifer Reeves (DMA Candidate) traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico to attend the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) National Conference for which she received two peer-reviewed invitations to present her work. On October 29 Reeves gave her lecture, “Dreams are Made of These: A Look at Collaboration Outside of the Music Box,” which discussed her process of creating an interdisciplinary arts collaboration between clarinet quartet and visual media. Reeves also performed a recital with her clarinet quartet, Hijinx. The group presented a new collaboration with multimedia titled Introspective. Shiana Montanari, a current doctoral student at UNL, clarinetist, and photographer/videographer for Hijinx, provided the multimedia aspect of the Hijinx collaboration. Montanari, along with Lucas Willsie (UNL alumnus, MM 2015), was also in attendance at the conference, and both performed with the quartet. Founded in 2015, Hijinx was created to present collaborations alongside other artistic disciplines while exploring original music for clarinet quartet. The quartet will present Introspective for their first performance tour January 29 – February 4, 2017. Their bookend performances of this tour will be presented at Doane University on January 29 and UNL’s Midwest Clarifest on February 11, 2017.