Jenny Davis
Executive Director

Jenny Davis is a musician, educator, and arts administrator from Memphis. A former MYSP flutist and board member, she is now honored to serve as the organization’s Executive Director while also teaching flute and chamber music at Rhodes College.

Jenny is a doctoral candidate in Flute Performance at the University of South Carolina and holds degrees from Boston University and Middle Tennessee State University, with additional study at the Trevor Wye Flute Studio in the UK. She has been a fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, New Music on the Point, and the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and has been recognized in numerous national young artist competitions.

She is a co-founder of Blueshift Ensemble, a contemporary chamber music collective known for presenting new music in nontraditional spaces. Since 2017, Blueshift has collaborated annually with ICEBERG New Music and partnered with a wide range of artists across genres. Jenny also performs with projects including the experimental flute duo if.else and the Eudaimonia Flute Quartet, and she has frequently appeared with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was Director of Music Programming at Crosstown Arts, curating performances and supporting local and national artists.

Dedicated to collaborating with and performing music by living composers, she has commissioned and premiered new works with if.else, Blueshift Ensemble, and the Eudaimonia Flute Quartet. Outside of music, Jenny co-hosts the weekly radio show Sonosphere on WYXR, enjoys cycling, studying the Alexander Technique, and reading.