With playing that is “fierce and lyrical” and works that are “other-worldly” (The Strad) and “evocative” (New York Times), Jessica Meyer is an award-winning composer and violist whose passionate musicianship radiates accessibility and emotional clarity.

Recent premieres include works for the St. Lawrence String Quartet as the composer in residence at Spoleto Festival USA, CityMusic Cleveland, musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra, Five Borough Songbook, Bangor Symphony as the winner of the 2nd Annual Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer’s Award, and the Argus Quartet as a winner of Chamber Music America’s Commissioning Program Award. Her first Symphonic Band piece was recently premiered by the President's Own Marine Band (with the NY premiere performed this past October in Carnegie Hall), and her orchestral works have been performed by the Phoenix, North Carolina, Charlotte and Vermont Symphonies, and all around the country as part of Carnegie Hall’s nationwide Link Up Program.

Highlights this season include the premiere of her own viola concerto, “GAEA”, with the League of Composers Orchestra, solo and chamber performances at the Moab Music Festival, works for HUB New Music and the Dorian Wind Quintet, and a new work written for herself alongside the Hausmann Quartet in San Diego.