Jessica Grabbe is an active freelance bassist based in Detroit. Since growing up in Ann Arbor, Grabbe has combined her love of music and travel to live and work all over the globe. She completed her performance degrees at New England Conservatory in Boston and Rice University in Houston and spent an exchange year studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. She has held contracts in the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera and the Kansas City Symphony and has also performed with the IRIS Orchestra in Memphis (now the IRIS Collective), the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet, Detroit Opera, and as guest principal with the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway. She has been a part of the Spoleto, Tanglewood and Verbier summer festivals and most recently spent summers in Austria as principal bass of the AIMS festival orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed with members of the Royal Danish Opera, the Detroit Symphony and New Music Detroit. After settling in Detroit around 2014, she became a regular extra musician with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and can be seen on stage with them most weeks. She lives in Detroit with her husband (Kevin Brown of the DSO) and their one year old daughter Isla.

Jessica will be performing in the following concerts –

Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor – Kerrytown Concert House, June 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm