Jennifer Wharton
- Visiting Assistant Trombone Professor
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Classical, Jazz and Commercial Music Performance
461 Allen Rd, 216 Music Building 2
- Email jmw8455@psu.edu
- Phone 814-863-4421
- Pronouns she/her/hers
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Biography
Jennifer Wharton is a trombonist based in New York City. Jen has planted deep roots in jazz, classical and commercial music. She can usually be found honking out low notes in a Broadway pit, a recording studio, on stage or in a big band section.
Jennifer has been a member of many Broadway orchestras, like Sweeney Todd, King Kong, Beautiful the Carole King Musical and more. She is currently performing in The Great Gatsby. Jen also leads the jazz septet, Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm, releasing 3 records in 6 years. Bonegasm’s third album, Grit & Grace (Sunnyside 2023), was awarded a Chamber Music America Grant and a Jazz Road Foundation Grant.
She is a member of the Grammy-nominated bands: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Alan Ferber Big Band, Remy LeBoeuf’s Assembly of Shadows, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra and the Terraza Big Band. She has also performed/recorded with the New York City Ballet, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie All Star Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Big Heart Machine and The Westerlies, among many others.
Jen has also been on faculty at Rutgers University and Montclair State University. Explore more at jenniferwharton.com.
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