About Me
Composer Jennifer Bellor holds a Bachelors in music from Cornell University, a Masters in music composition at Syracuse University, and is currently pursuing a PH.D in music composition at the Eastman School of Music. Over the past couple of years, she has written a variety of chamber and choral compositions that have been performed at various student concerts and church services in the central New York area. In February, she was selected to participate in the Young Composers Forum with the Buffalo Philharmonic where she received a reading of "Chimera" for orchestra. Bellor also enjoys writing music cues for plays, and received two commissions at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY to write music for the "Frog Prince" performed in September 2006 and “Arkansas Bear†performed in the summer of 2007. She also received a commission to write a song for the Society of New Music Rising Stars Concert, which was premiered in July. Other awards and accomplishments include the Brian Israel Award for composition, certificate in university teaching for her teaching fellow position in the Future Professoriate Program, the national music honors society, Pi Kappa Lambda. Jen is currently studying with Dr. David Liptak. Former teachers include Sally Lamb, Steven Stucky, and Andrew Waggoner. In addition, Jen is the music director at St. Francis of Assisi church in Bridgeport, NY, where she accompanies, conducts, and composes for the church choir.
