Dr. Jennifer Oliverio

About Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Oliverio is a celebrated cornet and flugelhorn player who holds the positions of principal cornet with the Fountain City Brass Band and flugelhorn with the Athena Brass Band. Oliverio is currently the Assistant Professor of Music in trumpet at Missouri Western State University.

Oliverio is an avid supporter of new music for cornet and flugelhorn, having commissioned and premiered solo works by Lucy Pankhurst, Dorothy Gates, Kevin Day, Andrea Hobson, and Jen Mitchell, for her premiere solo album Enigma. Her work on Enigma received overwhelmingly positive reviews and was nominated for the 4barsrest Album of the Year, a silver medal in the Global Music Awards, and winner of the 2023 American Prize in brass performance.

Oliverio has served on the board of directors for the Fountain City Brass Band, the Athena Brass Band, the Visionary Panel for the National Youth Brass Band of America, and currently as the column editor for the International Trumpet Guild’s cornet column. As a clinician, she regularly performs and presents at national and international festivals including: the RNCM Brass Band Festival, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, Brass Institutes of America, International Women’s Brass Conference, PRIZM Chamber Music Festival, and the Eastman Summer Trumpet Institute. In her freelance work, she has performed as an extra with the Kansas City Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Seraph Brass, the Alabama Symphony, and is a founding member of the Trilogy Brass Trio.

Oliverio began composing in 2024, receiving overwhelming support for her pieces with performances at the International Women’s Brass Conference, International Trumpet Guild Conference, Colorado Music Educators Conference, Big-12 Trombone Conference, Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, and the Brass Institutes of America.

I value the process of meeting students where they are at and tailoring the student’s instruction to their needs. As an educator, I deeply enjoy utilizing cross-specialty learning where we incorporate movement, conducting, singing, drawing, and/or poetry with musical ideas and concepts as a way to diversify the student’s connection to music.