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Jill Dreeben
Massachusetts, Boston
B.A., Music, Cornell University, 1983
M.M., Flute Performance, New England Conservatory of Music, 1987
Licensed Body Mapping Educator, 2013
Jill Dreeben has performed in numerous solo and chamber music concerts throughout New England. She is a founding member of Solar Winds Woodwind Quintet, is a member of Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble and performs in the Dreeben/Clemente flute and guitar duo. She has worked with groups including the Lumen Contemporary Ensemble, Composers in RedSneakers, the Boston Secession and others through the Brandeis Music and Women’s Studies departments.
She is a champion of new music, performing works by composers John Armstrong, Ruth Lomon, Dana Maiben, Pasquale Tassone, Betsy Schramm, James Ricci and most recently two new works, “Monhegan Suite” for flute and guitar by John Kusiak in 2012, and “Twenty Four” for flute and piano by Jonathan Ragonese premiered in May 2014.
She has played with the New England Orchestra of Lowell, MA and Emmanuel Music of Boston.
Jill Dreeben is also a Licensed Body Mapping Educator; she teaches the course “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body” as well as giving private Body Mapping lessons and workshops. Currently she teaches flute at Brandeis University and maintains a private studio in Arlington, MA.
Recordings include the new CD Monhegan Suite and other Musical Journeys for Flute and Guitar with guitarist Peter Clemente as well as The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by John Kusiak and Peter and the Wolf for woodwind quintet and narrator with Solar Winds Quintet.
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