Jennifer Grady (b. 1956)

Jennifer Grady grew up near Kingsburg, California and studied the piano privately for seven years. She starting playing the flute at the age of 10 and went on to perform with several county honor bands and orchestra. She was selected to perform with the California State High School Honor Band in 1973 and 1974. Following high school, she performed with a baroque strings group at Kings River Community College.
 
In 1990, she began playing and performing with a flute quartet in Olympia, Washington and with the Olympia Flute Choir. At that time, she began to compose and arranged pieces for flute and piano, and flute ensemble. She has performed in concert with “Windham Hill” recording artist Scott Cossu. Her composition “Sean’s Dance” was performed at the 1994 Northwest Composers and Arrangers Concert held at Portland State University in Oregon. In 1997, her compositions “Soaring” and “Sweet Molly’s Lament” were performed at the same event. She attended the NFA Conventions in 1998-2002 where she performed her composition “Sean’s Dance” two of those years in the Exhibitors Concert, and played in the Professional Flute Choir four of those years. In 2000, she toured England and Wales with the American Flute Orchestra. In 2001, she recorded two CDs, “Christmas Flutes” and “Special Occasions”, with The National Flute Choir under the direction of Amy Rice Blumenthal. 

Jennifer is a member of the National Flute Association, the Greater Portland Flute Society, and ASCAP. She is still actively composing and playing with harpist Karen Almquist in the duo HarpSong. They’ve been playing and performing together since 1995 and have recorded three CDs, “Noel”, “Sean’s Dance, and “The River.”

She currently resides is Silverton, Oregon with her husband, and her dog Cooper.