Jeanette Jonquil clarinet

Jeanette Jonquil has been the principal clarinetist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra since 2005. In 2006, she also performed with the Minnesota Orchestra as guest principal clarinetist. Before moving to Vancouver, she was the principal clarinetist in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina) where she was first featured as a soloist in her second month with the orchestra. Prior to that, she performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and was also a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. While with the MSO she was part of their historic tour to Cuba, making them the first American orchestra to perform there in over 50 years.

In the summers, Ms. Jonquil is the principal clarinetist with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in Boulder. This summer she also looks forward to performing at the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival on the Sunshine Coast. She has attended the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Spoleto Festival USA, Chautauqua Music Festival in New York and was a fellow at Tanglewood where she was awarded the Gino B. Cioffi Memorial Prize for most outstanding woodwind playing.

Ms. Jonquil is originally from Utica, New York where she began playing the cello in her school orchestra. After dropping and snapping the neck of the cello for the third time she was so afraid to face her teacher that she begged her mother to return the instrument for her and switched to the clarinet. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and her Master of Music degree from Yale University. Her primary teachers were Russell Dagon and David Shifrin. Some of her other accomplishments include winning the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and the Daniel Nyfenger Memorial Prize for Excellence in Woodwind Playing (both at Yale), winning first prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles and being offered positions in the Kansas City Symphony and the New World Symphony. She has appeared as a soloist on several occasions with the Charleston Symphony, Utica Symphony and Yale Philharmonia.

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