Welcome to Telling Stories: music and essays. We normally just go by Telling Stories, and we’re a troupe of professional classical musicians and writers who are working to make music and literature a little more fun.
Our vision:
Telling Stories serves to attract a younger audience to classical music and literature.
Our mission:
Telling Stories offers live concerts in casual venues; the concerts feature classical chamber music and original literature. It centers on commissioning new chamber repertoire, original essays, and showcasing a nontraditional blend of the two arts.
Board members:
Jennie Dorris is a writer and percussionist who lives in Denver. She founded Telling Stories in 2006 because she believed that her love for words and music didn’t have to be separate entities. She has since taught interdisciplinary programs at the Denver School of the Arts and with the Harmony Project. She has played with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles across the nation, and written for publications from Field & Stream to Entrepreneur. She currently writes a blog for 5280 Magazine about living an affordable, sustainable life. In her spare time, she is training for her first marathon and working on her first novel, both of which she finds equally challenging.
Dave Short, cello, has played with Telling Stories since 2006. He is a member of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, performing and recording for silent films including a run at Lincoln Center in New York City and playing the Castro Theater for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. He has won positions and plays with the Fort Collins Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic and Cheyenne Symphony. He teaches cello for Strings Attached (part of Englewood Arts) in Englewood and maintains his own private studio in north Denver. David received a Bachelor’s in Music from Ithaca College and studied with Judith Glyde at CU Boulder.
Megan Tipton has had a relationship with her viola since 1989. In that time, her performing has taken her all over the country for orchestral work, chamber music playing, summer music festivals and two degrees, her undergraduate from Southern Methodist University and her masters from CU, Boulder. She currently runs a large private studio with students of all ages and levels and enjoys teaching beginning string classes at local schools. Megan is the assistant principal violist of the Boulder Philharmonic and freelances in the Denver metro area. When not at work. she enjoys the outdoors with her dog, Finn.
Jeanine Fritz is a freelance writer and event producer from Boulder. People started paying her actual money for writing six years ago, when she wrote an outdoor humor column from the perspective of someone who likes to stay indoors with the curtains drawn, watching a movie. Soon after, she became the Film Critic for the Daily Camera.
Since then, she’s written dozens of essays, had articles published in the Daily Camera, the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post and the Colorado Daily, and played copywriter for a few public relations campaigns and several marketing projects. She is currently living in Oslo, writing a fish-out-of-water column for the Colorado Daily, which focuses on pickled herring, death metal and other Norwegian obsessions.
Jeanine programmed and managed the Boulder Outdoor Cinema for five years, and has worked with the Boulder International Film Festival, the Toofy Film Festival, the Denver International Film Festival, the Vail Film Festival and several others. She plans to finish her feature-length western and begin writing short film screenplays in the next year.
Jeanine is shocked and grateful that the Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and the years studying film production are actually being used, and that she isn’t working at the circus, as predicted in high school. Especially since circuses aren’t currently hiring.
Brianna Doby is an entrepreneur and mother who lives in Denver. As a senior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Brianna founded her own business—the eponymous BD Consulting. Now, in 2009, BD Consulting continues to thrive. BD Consulting partners with large national and small local non-profits for project-based work on donor analysis, strategic planning, and creative, effective fundraising. She also has an active role on the Parent’s Council for The Denver Waldorf School. As a dedicated mother of two small children, Brianna enjoys volunteering for organizations that serve children and advance the arts. In her “spare” time, Brianna enjoys playing the guitar, flamenco dancing, tennis, and golf.
Contact us:
E-mail Telling Stories at stories.telling@gmail.com