James Jeter is a professional freelance bassoonist in New York City and has an international reputation as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, recording artist and experienced teacher for all ages. He performs principal bassoon with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Alvin Ailey Dance Co., New York City Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Twentieth Century Unlimited (Santa Fe, NM) and various orchestras in New York and abroad (Italy and Switzerland). The Carnegie Hall Corporation sponsored Mr. Jeter in a solo recital as part of its “Debuts & Encores Series,” and he has been a featured concerto soloist with the Arcady Music Festival (ME), Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, Atlantic Sinfonietta (NY) and the Biel Symphony (Switzerland). He founded the Virtuosi Quintet in 1983 and has toured nationally with the ensemble through Columbia Artists Management. He has recorded a solo album for Crystal Records, and with the Virtuosi Quintet and the Atlantic Sinfonietta, has recorded CDs for Musical Heritage Society, Capstone Records and Koch International Classics. Mr. Jeter earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas at Austin, Master of Music from the Juilliard School and Doctor of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook. He has been invited to perform solo recitals at the International Doublereed Society Conferences at Northwestern University (IL), Buenos Aires, Argentina and Ithaca College, NY. He was invited in the summer of 2001 to perform as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington), and currently is on the Chamber Music Faculty of the 92nd Street Y (NYC), and is an Affiliate Artist at Sarah Lawrence College (NY); he also teaches and performs every summer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
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“Mr. Jeter proved a splendid player, with dapper phrasing, a diaphanous lower register, oboe-sweet high notes and a certain Mephistophelean elegance.”
New York Times
