Biography
Jennifer Reynolds Greene has been an instrumental music educator, specializing in bands, for more than 30 years.
For the majority of her career, she held a position at Fayetteville-Manlius High School, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, where she taught Concert Band, Studio Music, Music Theory 2, AP Music Theory, brass and percussion lessons, and chamber ensembles. As a director, Greene’s bands have performed nationally in San Antonio, Atlanta, Orlando, Washington D.C., and Chicago, earning consistently high ratings and awards. She has served as a guest conductor for many honor band festivals and has toured four times with the American Music Abroad program.
As a music educator, Greene is an active member of the New York State School Music Association, for which she is an adjudicator, a member of the Manual Selection Committee, and the Zone 3 Representative. Greene was recently appointed to the Advisory Council for the Music Educators’ Journal, a publication of NAfME, as well as the Music Teacher Profession Advisory Committee, which is designed to help advance the Blueprint for Strengthening the Music Teacher Profession.
As a musician, Greene remains active as a freelance hornist and a member of Central Winds: A Music Educators’ Wind Ensemble. She has performed with this group since 1993 and served as its general manager from 1999 to 2017. As part of this group's educational outreach, Greene has presented clinics at Ithaca College, Syracuse University, and the Eastman School of Music. The group has enjoyed working with such conductors and artists as Donald Hunsberger, Mark Scatterday, Steve Peterson, and The Boston Brass, and performing locally and at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, the Texas Bandmasters Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and the New York State Band Directors Symposium in Syracuse, New York.
Greene serves as an adjunct for several institutions, including Onondaga Community College (SUNY), where she designed and implemented the Intro to Music Education course. At Kent State, Greene advises students in their capstone projects and the research course, and facilitates courses such as Advanced Studies in Teaching Instrumental Music and Technology for Music Teaching and Learning.
Her research interests include teacher education as it relates to mentoring and professional development, teaching and learning in a digital environment, and belonging in music ensembles. She has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, Arts Education Policy Review, and the School Music News (NYSSMA). She has presented research at numerous conferences, such as the NAfME Biennial Music Research and Teacher Education Conference, the Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE) Symposium, the Mayday Group Colloquia, NAfME Eastern Division, NYSSMA Winter Conference, the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference, and the Narrative Inquiry in Music Education Conference.
Greene earned her Bachelor of Music Education, Summa Cum Laude, from James Madison University (1990). Her Master of Music degree is from Ithaca College (1991) and her Doctorate of Musical Arts is from Boston University (2015).