Jill’s musical journey spans over 30 years with Quintessence Chamber
Ensemble and Michigan’s Bay View Music Festival plus concerto performances
with orchestras across the country. She performed with Chamber Music
Sedona and Red Rocks Music Festival, for children at Matsumoto Gakuen in
Tokyo, Japan and as orchestral musician with Flint Symphony, Duluth
Symphony, Colorado Philharmonic and more. Her awards include Silver Medal
of the Minnesota Orchestra Young Artist Competition presented by Neville
Marriner and both Fischoff Competition Best Wind Group prize and Munich
Competition semi-finalist selection with Quintessence.

Renowned as an artist teacher, Ms. Marderness addressed “The Performer as
Educator” at Chamber Music America and Music Educators National
Conferences. She taught on the faculties of Saint Cloud State University,
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Grand Canyon
University and for 25 years Arts in Education Roster Artist with the
Arizona Commission on the Arts. At Bay View Music Festival she is resident
bassoonist, private teacher and ensemble coach for college students from
across the nation plus Youth Music Coordinator overseeing the Music &
Munchies family concerts plus Behind the Scenes and Rising Stars Recital
for the Bay View Association summer community.

Ms. Marderness joined Arizona Opera Orchestra as second bassoon in 2000
and is regularly engaged by the Phoenix Symphony, Tucson Symphony and
Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra. She is Co-Founder and Director of
Operations for Scottsdale Neighborhood Arts Place and resides in
Scottsdale with her husband Fred Marderness, percussionist with the
Phoenix Symphony.