A musician shaped by her roots in the bohemian city of New Orleans, violinist Jenna Sherry is based in London. A versatile chamber musician who specialises in historical performance, Jenna has recorded for BBC broadcast, and collaborated with composers Unsuk Chin and Julian Anderson. She has performed widely at venues including the Kennedy Center and the Barbican, and at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival, IMS Prussia Cove, and Cologne Acht Brücken Festival, among others.
Selected as a Marshall Scholar by the British Government, Jenna’s musical influences include David Takeno (Guildhall School), Mark Kaplan (Indiana University), and Ferenc Rados.
In 2020 Jenna released a disc of the Brahms Op. 120 and Dohnányi sonatas with pianist Dániel Lőwenberg on BMC records. She is solo violin/viola with the SWR EnsembleExperimental (Freiburg), and regularly plays with John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and English Baroque Soloists. She teaches violin and leads chamber music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague’s School for Young Talent.
Sensing that New Orleans has something that classical music needs, Jenna founded and is artistic director of the Birdfoot Festival.
Jenna Sherry © Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee