Jean Roberts, Piano

Jean currently teaches theory at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and she also serves as the organist for Christ Episcopal Church and School. Following degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale University School of Music, Jean earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Notable performances include appearances with the Stirling String Quartet and the West Australian Trio in Perth, Australia. Along with her husband John, she has performed several two-piano concertos with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Penang Festival Orchestra in Malaysia, the Charlotte Philharmonic, the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra, the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. They have performed as a two piano team in Japan, Italy, Australia and most recently in North Carolina and Texas. Other recent performances include Chamber Music in the Pines Festival and a recital with Saxophonist and Clarinetist Montgomery Cole. She has been on the faculty at the Red Lodge Music Festival since 1994.