Concertmaster, Fall 2023: Mary Ballone
On Leave Concertmaster: Jean Denney
Jean Denney serves as Personnel Manager for the Fort Collins Symphony where she has played violin over 30 years, and enjoys the diverse aspects of being an orchestral musician, freelance violinist, studio teacher, instrumental contractor, and newly published method book author.
She has been fortunate to play on stages and in orchestra pits with orchestras, ballets, operas, dinner theaters, and choruses in Texas, Indiana, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.
Although she has pioneered, directed, and taught music curricula for public school districts in Colorado, Texas, and Indiana, was a charter member of the Indianapolis Symphony's Educator's Advisory Committee, Executive Director of the String Quartet Program of Northern Colorado, and Administrator of Rocky Ridge Music Center, her true passion in education lies with adults. Recognizing a severe need for materials appropriate to adult students of violin, she authored the book Mastering the Violin: A Comprehensive Study for the Adult Learner, published by Mel Bay in 2022. It presents an innovative and bold approach which differs from traditional methods in an effort to meet the physical and mental needs of adult beginners.
Jean Denney studied with Will Schwartz while earning her Bachelor of Music Education and
Master of Music Performance at Colorado State University. She and her husband, choral
conductor Alan Denney, live in Estes Park where they raised their three daughters.
Jean Denney serves as Personnel Manager for the Fort Collins Symphony where she has played violin over 30 years, and enjoys the diverse aspects of being an orchestral musician, freelance violinist, studio teacher, instrumental contractor, and newly published method book author.
She has been fortunate to play on stages and in orchestra pits with orchestras, ballets, operas, dinner theaters, and choruses in Texas, Indiana, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.
Although she has pioneered, directed, and taught music curricula for public school districts in Colorado, Texas, and Indiana, was a charter member of the Indianapolis Symphony's Educator's Advisory Committee, Executive Director of the String Quartet Program of Northern Colorado, and Administrator of Rocky Ridge Music Center, her true passion in education lies with adults. Recognizing a severe need for materials appropriate to adult students of violin, she authored the book Mastering the Violin: A Comprehensive Study for the Adult Learner, published by Mel Bay in 2022. It presents an innovative and bold approach which differs from traditional methods in an effort to meet the physical and mental needs of adult beginners.
Jean Denney studied with Will Schwartz while earning her Bachelor of Music Education and
Master of Music Performance at Colorado State University. She and her husband, choral
conductor Alan Denney, live in Estes Park where they raised their three daughters.