Personal History
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Jennifer Wade was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, and began playing the violin at the age of eleven.  Although Jennifer began her instruction as an older student, she advanced quickly and began participating in many of the best opportunities available to students in the region, including various Honors Orchestras, Regional Orchestras, and chamber music coachings.  By the time Jennifer was a freshman in high school, she was already performing professional programs with the Arlington Symphony as part of the organization's Apprentice Program. 

Jennifer's teaching experience began early under the direction of her high school orchestra conductor and her private teacher. Jennifer worked regularly as the primary substitute teacher for the private studio to which she belonged, in addition to working with students in the high school orchestra during sectionals and special instruction periods. At the completion of her  sophomore year, Jennifer had already built a small studio of her own.

After high school, Jennifer attended the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in pursuit of her Bachelor's Degree in Music (Violin Performance). In 1997, Jennifer was the winner of the school's prestigious Branscomb Award for overall excellence. While at Vanderbilt, Jennifer signed on as an Adjunct Professor of Violin at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, working with the Pre-Collegiate Program. When home during the summer months, Jennifer served as a faculty member for Chamber Music of Arlington, a summer program geared toward advanced level middle and high school students.

Upon returning to the Washington, DC area, Jennifer promptly began teaching and performing full time. Since then, she has served as a judge for the Northern Virginia Music Teacher's Association Violin Concerto Competition, the District XII Orchestra Festival, the Fine Arts Apprentice Program, and the Reflections Contest. Jennifer's students have consistently won auditions for the areas most competitive youth organizations and schools including, the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras and the Duke Ellington School for the Arts.

As an active freelance musician in the Washington, DC area, Jennifer has performed with such notable groups as the National Philharmonic, The Washington Concert Opera, The Cathedral Arts Society, The Baltimore Ballet, The Maryland, Alexandria, Fairfax, and Arlington Symphonies, The Virginia Consort, and others.

Jennifer's teachers have included Doris McLaughlin, Margaret Soper, Alexander Yudowsky of New York City's School for Strings, and Connie Heard and Christian Teal of the Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee.