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Jessica Roemischer is a pianist, composer and transformational advisor. Her vast experience working in music with individuals of all ages and cultures has given rise to a profound understanding of the human condition while revealing the dynamics of healing and change.
You can purchase Jessica's CD, "Haven" at www.cdbaby.com/cd/jessicaroemischer
and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/haven/id449176300
"Listening to Jessica Roemischer's solo piano performance on Haven is a musical meditation, an exploration of melody through the prism of blues, jazz, classical, and more. She wonderfully integrates these styles into a tapestry of sound textures that evoke peace, because they come from love." Greg Thomas, Music Writer and Author, New York Daily News
Born into a musical family, Jessica began piano at age six and was improvising and composing from the outset. Her pedagogical lineage through her mother, pianist Miriam Roemischer, links directly to Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven. Captivated by the timeless beauty of classical music, Jessica was also a "child of the '60's" (and '70's) and found herself equally as compelled by the soaring harmonies of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, the inimitable guitar of Led Zeppelin, and the hypnotic vocalizations of Van Morrison. Learning to play her favorite songs by ear, she simultaneously pursued classical piano studies with Marilyn Sophos and won awards at the Westchester (NY) Symphony and Westchester Conservatory Concerto competitions, among others.
Since graduating magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1982, Jessica Roemischer has taught hundreds of individuals on four continents. Her innovative work in music is informed by a life-long study of philosophy, aesthetics, spirituality and evolutionary thought--a tutelage that began with her parents, both of whom hold doctorates. From 1989-1999, Jessica was on the Applied Music Faculty of Middlebury College, Vermont. Her wide experience has led to the conclusion that, when given the optimum environment, an individual will invariably come forth with extraordinary strengths and creative capacities.
Jessica Roemischer generates this ideal environment through her unique approach to piano duet improvisation, The Piano Duet Paradigm(TM). In so doing, she makes it possible for everyone--regardless of age, background or even the presence of a developmental disability--to access his or her deepest and most far-reaching potential. Jessica conducts a unique music program at Riverbrook Residence for Women in Stockbridge, MA. Her ground-breaking work with women with disabilities at Riverbrook has received support from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Caroline and James Taylor.