Jessica McKee

Appointed Fall 2022

Jessica McKee is an active collaborator throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. Passionate about chamber music, she is a founding member of the Iris Piano Trio, an outreach-based chamber group that began at Charles E. Smith Life Communities in Rockville, MD. She has held adjunct teaching positions at various local institutions including Montgomery Community College, The University of Maryland and Washington Adventist University. She is currently Staff Collaborative pianist at The University of Maryland, performing for recitals throughout the academic year. Outside the university, she is an extremely active performer, frequently collaborating with both students and professionals in recordings, recitals and chamber music concerts in the D.C. area as well as throughout the United States. Her playing can be heard on professional recordings Consonant Connections and A Winters Night.

McKee holds both her Masters and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Maryland where she studied with Rita Sloan and worked closely with the Maryland Opera Studio as well as the brass, string and wind faculties. McKee also attended the University of Michigan where she studied piano with Logan Skelton and Douglas Humphreys and played violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra.

McKee maintains a small private teaching studio at her home in Maryland where she lives with her husband, her two young daughters, her cat and her dog.