Jennifer Wilsey—percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator—is a co-founding member of improvising ensembles Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, and George Marsh), The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), and Gestaltish (with Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck).  Jennifer’s projects have also included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, The Luna Ensemble, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, Bernie Krause, and Anna Halprin, among others.  Her recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder.  As an educator, Jennifer directs the Musicianship Program at Mills College, teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University, and teaches in the Deep Listening® Online Certificate Training Program at Rensselaer.  She offers workshops, intensives and retreats in Deep Listening, Improvisation, and Music Games, and individual lessons via her creative music studio in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.  


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