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Jessica Billings-White

Jessica Billings-White
Teacher Education
 

Biography

Ms. Jessica Billings-White is honored to be one of four the string specialists in the Lexington Public Schools. She is currently the only Performing Arts itinerant teacher at the elementary schools, both middle schools and high school.

Ms. Billings-White is an active director, strings teacher and performer in the Greater Boston area. She earned a Bachelors degree of Music in Cello Performance from McGill University and a Master’s degree of Music in Cello Performance, Graduate Performance Diploma in String Performance, and a Master’s degree of Music in Music Education from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Ms. Billings-White is a member of NAfME, the National Association for Music Education; ASTA (the American String Teachers Association; and MA-ASTA, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American String Teachers Association where she is a past President, former Secretary and former webmaster. She started her teaching career as a K-5 general music teacher in the New Bedford Public Schools, taught strings in the Ipswich Public Schools, working with students grades 5-12 and directing their orchestra ensembles before coming to Lexington. Additionally, Ms. Billings-White is on the Faculty in the Music Education Department at the Longy School of Music of Bard College where she teaches a Strings Method II class and has been a guest clinician for school districts in Massachusetts and for District Festivals.

Ms. Billings-White is a conductor, has been a guest clinician in regional music festivals and has traveled internationally with her ensembles. Her musical background also included Trumpet and French Horn during her middle and high school years in Upstate New York. And she is an active advocate for adoption, Asian, and LGBTQ+ communities. Other interests include going on adventures with her husband and three children, making sure her two French Bulldogs (Bear and Bianca) are not tearing up the house, enjoying chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream whenever possible and indoor rock climbing at Central Rock Gyms all over Massachusetts.