Jennifer Rhodes, a bassoonist based in New York City, is a 2005 doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School. She is a member of the esteemed Opera Orchestra of New York with which she performs at Carnegie Hall. She also plays regularly with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers’ Orchestra, and Westchester Philharmonic. An active chamber musician, Ms. Rhodes has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and the North Country Chamber Players. Jennifer has worked with such well-known conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas and can be heard as principal bassoonist on Itzhak Perlman’s 1998 EMI recording "Concertos From My Childhood."