Jennie Dorris is a writer and percussionist who lives in Boston. She currently works as an Entrepreneurial Advisor for the New England Conservatory, and teaches classes in percussion and writing for Creative Arts. She is the founder and director of the award-winning chamber series Telling Stories, featured on public radio, and is the founder and guest artist at Denver School of the Arts’ Telling Stories interdisciplinary program. An active recitalist, she is preparing an upcoming program mixing saxophone and marimba chamber music with creative nonfiction and film, a setting of The Little Prince to transcriptions of Debussy’s piano music, and a setting of her own novel to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor. She has performed with the Colorado Ballet, Colorado Music Festival, Mountain Chamber Music Society, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, and Greeley Philharmonic, as well as the Boulder Brass, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, and Colorado Chamber Orchestra. She has taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder, developed coursework for the University of Denver, and held teaching positions at Red Rocks Community College and the Community College of Denver. She was named a 2010 Westword Mastermind.
She has been featured in Symphony Magazine, 5280 Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Daily Camera, Colorado Daily, Westword, Colorado View, and Music from Colorado.
Westword, 2011: “Telling Stories takes to the Airwaves Courtesy of Colorado Public Radio”
Westword, 2010: Celebrate Artopia and Westword’s Newest Masterminds
Denver Post, 2010: Hanging By a String, Can Classical Music Survive?
Denver Post, 2010: Classical Music is Going New Places to Lure New Faces
5280 Magazine, 2010: Listen Up
Westword, 2010: “Music, Meet Words”
Symphony Magazine, 2010: So You Say You Want a Revolution
Westword, 2008: “This merry troupe of young virtuosos is bringing high culture to the Facebook crowd, putting on casual presentations of chamber works and readings of original essays at venues like the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in Boulder and the Mercury Café in Denver — places where the show can be enjoyed over a foamy latte of sudsy beers.” — Best High Culture for the Cool Crowd
Boulder Weekly, 2007: “There’s a whole new generation of music fanatics out there, and they are going to turn the world of classical on its head. In Colorado, keep your eye out for Jennie Dorris and her band of merry musicians; they will be composing the revolution.” — Dale Bridges
Daily Camera, 2008: “I love what they do because they’re professionals at what they do. They’ve decided that the opera house or symphony hall is not necessarily the only place where people should be able to hear this kind of music.” — Daniel Weinshenker, director of Center for Digital Storytelling
Rocky Mountain News, 2007: “In December Telling Stories debuted at the Laughing Goat and has been growing in popularity every since. The “Guilty Pleasures” installment provided ample evidence why.” — Marc Shulgold