Jessica V

Instruments: Voice, Piano, Composition

Teaching Styles: Pop, Jazz, Musical Theater

University: Minnesota State University Moorhead, Bachelors of Music

Fun Fact: Jessica was born in Riverside, California but has spent the last 9 years in Fargo, North Dakota and looks forward to being back home!

Bio: Jessica has been performing live since 2007 and has been teaching privately since 2015. She started her musical education at 12 years old when she began studying voice with a variety of teachers and performing in her church band. In 2013, she started at Minnesota State University Moorhead where she had the honor of studying classical voice with Jenny Dufault, musical theater voice with Julie Adams, jazz voice with Sherrine Mostin, jazz improvisation with Tom Strait, and composition and jazz arranging with Allen Carter. In 2017, she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Music in Jazz Studies. After graduation, she has played with a variety of groups that toured all over the Midwest, including Downtown Sound as their bassist/vocalist, Heavy is the Head as a vocalist and the JV/CL Duo as the vocalist.

Since the summer of 2018, Jessica completely focused her performance energy on her original project. She has released three studio projects (For A Night in 2019, Moving Too Fast in 2020, and Delicious in 2021) under her name, on which she wrote, sang, produced, arranged and played piano. She continues to tour with different variations of her band and is always working on new music. As a teacher, Jessica meets students where they are and loves helping them achieve their goals with theory and technique in a fun, comfortable way.