Jean E. Roberts

A native of New York, Jean Roberts is presently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Mercer University. Her performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has performed with the Stirling String Quartet in Perth, Australia and for the Alec Wilder Festival in NYC. Orchestral performances include appearances with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Penang Festival Orchestra in Malaysia, the Charlotte Philharmonic, the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra, the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, and the Macon Symphony Orchestra. She has performed in Kitakyushu, Japan and most recently in Lamezia Terme, Italy as the featured concert at the Calabria International Piano Competition. She participates in the bi-annual Winter Chamber Music Festival in Perth, Australia and often performs duo-piano recitals with her husband and chamber music with the Mercer Chamber Players. Following degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale University School of Music, she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano from the University of Texas at Austin. Much of her time is now spent playing chamber music, accompanying, teaching piano, and serving as organist at St. James Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia.