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Dr. Jennifer Jester joins the faculty of Millersville University to serve as the head of the Music Business and Technology Program as well as teach “Popular Music,” and other related offerings.  Prior to teaching at Millersville, her professional business experiences include working as Executive Director of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association and the Tuba Euphonium Press, Managing Director of Community Concerts at Second, Administration for the Washington Symphonic Brass, and Founder of her personal company Jester’s Court Productions specializing in non-profit management and events.

Dr. Jester holds a DMA in Euphonium performance with a research emphasis in interdisciplinary education, performance, and entrepreneurship. She earned a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, a B.S. in Music Performance from Arizona State University, and completed the Music Business Certificate Program at the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, CA.  Dr. Jester’s private teachers on euphonium include Sam Pilafian, James Miller, and Tommy Johnson.  Business mentors include Christine Steven and Kathy Brantigan, and creative and recording mentors include Sam Pilafian, Nick South, and Chris Dudley.  Internships include Interscope Records (L.A., CA),  and The Institute for Studies in the Arts with John Mitchell using the "Intelligent Stage" for Arizona State University's Institute for the Study of the Arts.  The activated stage used video processing technology to detect performer motions and initiate actions in response and was used for dance, theater, and performance art. 

A composer, arranger, singer/songwriter, and performer, Dr. Jester’s projects include “The Last Tango” a 40 minute one-woman show with words, acting, and music performed and composed by Dr. Jester; and music composed and arranged for The Option of War, by animator Nick Fox-Geig. Musical interests include music, dance, and drumming from West Africa (Ghana, Guina), the Balkan Region (Balkan brass bands) Latin music, as well as traditional classical music and jazz. While at CalArts she performed with the CalArts Women’s African Drum Ensemble, and the African Dance Ensemble. Other groups include the River City Brass Band (Pittsburgh, PA), “Sweet Thunder” Tuba Euphonium Quartet (USA), “Balkanto” Balkan Brass Ensemble (LA, CA) , the CalArts Liberation Music Orchestra conducted by Charlie Haden (LA, CA), the Vinny Golia Ensemble (LA, CA), the Chicano Power Revival (CPR) Orchestra Latin Jazz Ensemble (Phoenix, AZ), and most recently in the off-Broadway production “Tarantella: Spider Dance!” with Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza in New York City. Areas of study include euphonium, trombone, piano, acting, improv acting and comedy, salsa, swing, and tango dance, recording, composition, and voice. 

Prior to Millersville University, Dr. Jester taught Brass Methods at Towson University in Maryland, was a Teaching Fellow at UCLA for the Freshman Cluster Course “Inside the Performing Arts: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Performance in Society and Culture”, and “Explorations in Song, Dance, and Drumming Around the World,” appeared as a guest lecturer in music business at Loyola Marymount University, and CalArts, and taught euphonium at Phoenix College in Phoenix, Arizona.