  Janet Underhill Assistant Conductor, Junior Repertory Orchestra, and Director, Preparatory Winds
Janet Underhill, a native of British Columbia, Canada, is a bassoonist, teacher and arts administrator in the Boston area. For her ten years of managing and developing the chamber music program for BYSO, Janet was the recipient of the 2001 Kay Logan Award, a national award for excellence in chamber music teaching. Currently she is the Director of Chamber Music and Private Lessons for St. Mark's School of Southborough, MA. She also serves as a bassoon instructor at the Boston College South Shore Conservatory, Community Music Center and New England Conservatory, Prep Division. Janet is a founding member of Arcadian Winds, a woodwind quintet specializing in contemporary music, which has commissioned and premiered more than 50 works. Solo performances include concertos with The Pittsburgh Symphony, Harvard University Mozart Society Orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Little Orchestra of Victoria, as well as solo performances at the International Double Reed Conference in Minneapolis, The Fromm Series at Harvard University, the Gaudeamus Competition in Rotterdam, Holland, The Women's Avant Festival in Chicago, The Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, The Outoftowners series in New York City, CrossSounds in Alaska and Soundwaves in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a member of Alea III, with whom she has been on five Greek tours and St. Petersburg, Russia. Solo and chamber music works written for Ms. Underhill are included on CDs of composers Julian Wachner, Stefan Hakenberg, John Holland, Timothy Melbinger and Neil Leonard. Also interested in archival projects, she has developed a cataloguing system for ethnic recordings with composer Martin Bartlett, and has organized Gunther Schuller's personal collection. Previous Page Back to Artistic Staff Next Page |