Jenn Cornell is a performer, composer and an educator bringing cello across boundaries with her visionary style of playing, creating songs that stretch what a cello can be, and inspiring young musicians with her mentor approach to teaching. Jenn has had a diverse career creating genre bending music in performance, film scoring, and in the education of the arts.
Jenn Cornell’s unique sound is an amalgamation born from 33 years of devotion to cello. She was first a classically trained musician and then realizing she had more to say with cello, she began making the sounds she heard in her head. Jenn recalls,
“I used to have these reoccurring dreams where I would see my hand flying up and down the fingerboard and hear sounds coming out from my cello that I had never made. I would wake up with this feeling of freedom and vitality that I wanted that same feeling in real life. Once I had the taste of freedom on my cello in my dreams, it changed my whole approach to music forever.”
So, she started treating her cello as if it was a guitar, a drum set, an electric bass, and (in her biggest strength) to play the cello emulating some of the great rock and jazz soloists that she looked up to; the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, and Jean-Luc Ponty; shredding on her solos and improvising jazz riffs. Bringing effects, looping, and the world renowned Turkish percussionist/drummer Emrah Kotan into the mix, Jenn Cornell’s sound became instantly recognizable as her own and her music’s genre sitting at the cross roads of Classical Fusion, Rock, World and Crossover Jazz.
Jenn Cornell’s cello stylings have also lend them self well to other artist’s including: double platinum bill-board artist B.o.B.; Michael Malarkey of the hit TV series “Vampire Diaries”; and to film maker Chris Anthony Hamilton in the original music soundtrack she composed for “Body and Son”.
Jenn performs in many different venues from Performing Arts Centers, Clubs, Schools and Universities, to one of her repeating engagements at the world’s busiest airport Jackson Hartsfield International Airport where she gets to keep her finger on the pulse of not onlyAtlanta, but also connecting her to the world and her music to it. In addition to performing, Jenn is committed to using music to make the world a better place and brings her music to hospitals and assisted living homes; as well as, mentors as head of the string department at the Community Music Centers of Atlanta.
Jenn Cornell believes that music has the power to move energy and she continues to use her talent’s to do so in all the ways she can.
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