Performances & Events

A good piece of event music knows where it is. It knows the room, the shape of the evening, the instruments in the hands of the people playing it, and the reason everyone came. Generic music never quite knows those things — which is probably why the rooms it plays in tend to feel a little generic too.

Jane writes to the occasion. An opening work for a concert series or a conference. A suite for a gala that earns the word. A fanfare for a civic ceremony or a ribbon-cutting that deserves more than canned brass from a playlist. And, quietly and often, new repertoire for performers who need it: a tune for flute and tuba for someone's graduation recital, an art song for soprano and piano for a debut program, a piece for an ensemble so specific no existing catalogue quite covers it. If you're a performer with a program that doesn't yet exist, she would very much like to hear about it.

For live performance, Jane works with a trusted circle of chamber musicians and vocalists, people she has rehearsed with for years, whose playing she knows the way you know a voice on the phone. Their warmth is why her scores land in the room the way they do.

Every commission begins with a conversation about what the occasion is, who it's for, and what you'd like the room to feel when it's over. From there: proposal, composition, rehearsal, performance. Available across the Northeastern United States, and nationally or internationally for larger commissions. Reach out early. Good music takes time, and the best music takes a little more.