Jean West
Dean, School of Music
Jean Ohlsson West is Dean and Professor of Flute in Stetson University's School of Music. Her association with Stetson's School of Music began in 1985 when she founded the Stetson Community School of Music, which she directed until 1992. She is flutist with the faculty wind quintet and wind trio, whose CD titled Tres Vientos was produced in 2000, and she is otherwise active as a solo, chamber, and orchestral player within the university setting and beyond.
Dr. West has enjoyed a very active involvement in the Florida Flute Association since 1986. She has organized and hosted many Flute Fairs of the Association and has been a regular presenter and performer at annual Flute Fairs. As past president, she is currently chair of the Board of Directors. As a member of the National Flute Association, Dr. West has performed at national conventions and served as an audition and competition adjudicator on several occasions. Dr. West has been associated with Michigan's Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp since 1995, teaching and playing flute in the Festival Band and Orchestra, and twice touring in Europe as group leader with the International Jazz Ensemble directed by her husband George.
Among her other campus commitments, Dr. West has been a faculty advisor to the Stetson chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota Fraternity for Women in Music and is president of Stetson's chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda national honor society. She earned degrees at James Madison University (B.M.Ed.) and The Ohio State University (M.A., music history; D.M.A., flute performance). She has held positions on the music faculties of California State University--Sacramento and Heidelberg College (Tiffin, OH), and was a University Fellow at Ohio State University. Prior to her association at Stetson University, she was principal flutist with the Baton Rouge Symphony and Opera Orchestra.