Jessica Piso serves as Instructor of Flute at Maryville College and Lee University. She is an active performer and teacher across the country. Her professional flute and piccolo experience includes substitute performances with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra, Northern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Oklahoma Festival Ballet. She has performed locally, at state level festivals, and at the National Flute Association conference.

 

Jessica has taught college and private applied flute lessons, studio, chamber coaching, music appreciation courses, flute methods for music education majors, and conducted flute choirs. She has also served as an adjudicator for All-State Auditions, competitions, and conducted masterclasses preparing for All-State repertoire in Oklahoma, Florida, and Tennessee.

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Jessica currently serves on the National Flute Association Flute Clubs Committee where she devotes time as a writer, proofreader, and brainstormer of blog content to the NFA blog, organizing presentations at conventions, as well as updating and managing the flute choir repertoire database and flute clubs, choirs, and community bands database. Previously she  dedicated her time to flute students by serving as a board member of the Oklahoma Flute Society. There she organized projects designed to assist young flutists in learning, collaborated in overseeing the Oklahoma Flute Fair, served as a guest clinician teaching at Flute Choir Festivals, and facilitated online workshops.

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She has enhanced her teaching expertise through completion of units in Suzuki Flute Teacher Training where she had the pleasure of learning from the Suzuki Flute Founder Toshio Takahashi. After the completion of her degrees, Jessica pursued additional orchestral study under the instruction of the Principal Flute of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Christine Davis. Jessica earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree with Instrumental emphasis from Ohio University and studied with Alison Brown Sincoff. She earned a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi while studying with Danilo Mezzadri and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Flute Performance from the University of Oklahoma under the tutelage of Valerie Watts.