Jennifer Bewerse

Jennifer Bewerse


Jennifer Bewerse is an award-winning cellist and specialist in contemporary music. As a result, she has premiered over 100 works including Mischa Salkind-Pearl’s In the Morning Light Gathered at My Window (2010), Caroline Miller’s Vessel (2014), Peter Ablinger’s WEISS / WEISSLICH 17k: Violoncello und Rauschen (2015), Carolyn Chen’s other forests (2016), Celeste Oram’s Sanz Cuer / Amis, dolens / Dame, par vous (2017), and Laura Steenberge’s concert-length work, Byzantine Rites (2018). Other composers she has had the privilege to work with include Patricia Alessandrini, Laurence Crane, Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Davis, Jonathan Harvey, Lei Liang, Michael Pisaro, Gunther Schuller, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler, Augusta Read Thomas, David Del Tredici, Chinary Ung, and Christian Wolff.

Jennifer has performed as a guest soloist for the wasteLAnd Concert Series, Robert Helps Festival and International Composition Competition, Without Walls Festival, and Carlsbad Music Festival; as a guest Teaching Artist for the Music from Salem: Cello Seminar; in concerts at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, REDCAT, the Center for New Music, Monday Evening Concerts, Tuesdays at Monk Space, Equilibrium Concert Series, People Inside Electronics Concert Series, University of Montana Faculty and Guest Artist Series, Laguna Beach Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival: Composer’s Symposium, and Banff Centre Chamber Music Residency; as a guest performer and presenter for the New Music Gathering and Eureka! Musical Minds Conference; and was the 2010 Performance Prizewinner at the soundSCAPE festival in Italy. Her work can be seen and heard on Ugly Duckling Presse, PARMA Records, Blue Griffin Recording, and Naxos.

Jennifer is an enthusiastic chamber musician and is currently the cellist of Southland Ensemble, an experimental music ensemble sponsored by the Aaron Copland Fund and described by the Los Angeles Times as “entrancing”. As a guest collaborator, she has performed with wild Up, Calithumpian Consort, Synchromy, Experimental Music Yearbook, now hear Ensemble, Juventas, Quartet Nouveau, Boston Public Quartet, Fireworks Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra, and Ellen Fullman. Her current collaboration with Rachel Beetz, Autoduplicity, has performed at Boston Court, ArtShare Los Angeles, Mor York Gallery as part of DogStar Festival and wasteLAnd Concerts, and at Mengi (Reykjavik, Iceland) with funding through a Project Grant from UC San Diego’s Dean of Humanities. In 2016, they were in residence at the Women’s International Study Center to create a new work with composer Celeste Oram.

A native of Florida, Jennifer received her Bachelor of Music magna cum laude from the University of South Florida, her Master of Music from The Boston Conservatory, and her Doctorate in Contemporary Performance at the University of California in San Diego with a full scholarship. Her principal teachers include Joan Markstein, Scott Kluksdahl, Charles Curtis, and Rhonda Rider.

For more information, visit www.jenniferbewerse.com.