Jennifer Weeks
Affiliate Professor of Music
Oboe
PAC 63; (360) 650-3749
Degrees:
- Professional Studies Diploma: Cleveland Institute of Music
- Bachelor of Music: McGill University
Jennifer Weeks grew up in Montreal, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University in Montreal, where she studied under Theodore Baskin of the Montreal Symphony. She went on to complete graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under John Mack of the Cleveland Orchestra. Additional training involved participation in several summer festivals in Canada and the United States, including the Domaine Forget in Quebec and the Tanglewood Fellowship Orchestra at the Tanglewood Summer Festival in Massachussetts.
In 1995 she won a job as principal oboist with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada. During her five year tenure in Kingston she was a member of the adjunct faculty at Queen’s University.
Throughout her professional career, Jennifer has performed with many orchestral and chamber music groups including the Orchestre Symphonique du Quebec, Les Violons du Roi, l’Orcestre Metropolitain de Montreal, the Canadian Opera Company, The National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian National Arts Center Orchestra, the Sarasota Opera Company, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Seattle Symphony.
After returning to school in 2002 to try a life that did not involve making oboe reeds......she completed a degree in Environmental Studies and is currently employed with the Samish Indian Nation’s Natural Resource Department.
Apparently unable to resist a love of making music and the stubborn determination required to make reeds.....Jennifer returned to playing music as much as possible. She is a member of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra and plays in a woodwind quartet (Zephyr Winds) in Bellingham, WA.