Ms. Jaeger has been teaching and coaching music for the past eight years across the east coast, from South Carolina to New York. She teaches general music and directs choral ensembles, in addition to keyboard instruments, chamber music, and composition. Her goal as an educator is to provide a safe environment that cultivates curiosity, creativity, and joy.

As a keyboard soloist, she has been praised by critics as a “confident, skilled performer”. Some of her featured performances include Carnegie Hall, Schlosskirche Cathedral, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Tribute Communities Recital Hall of Toronto, and The Kaufman Music Center. As a competitor, she has received awards as a medalist and finalist in various competitions throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, and Austria.

Ms. Jaeger obtained her M.M. from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she studied under Ieva Jokubaviciute and Dr. Alexander Bernstein. She received her B.A. in piano from Charleston Southern University, where she studied piano under Mr. Eugene Koester and Dr. Brad Parker. In high school, she received certification in musical studies through The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). Her choral and conducting teachers and mentors have included Dr. Nicholas V. Holland, III, Dr. Marshall Forrester, Dr. Sonja Sepulveda, and Dr. Valerie Bullock, and she continues to study independently to further her education.  

In academia, Ms. Jaeger’s research includes her graduate theses on Beethovenian elements in Schubert, 13th century mass transcriptions, and philosophical theories in the development of musical form. At present, her publications are primarily centralized on the impact of Aristotelian philosophy in 18th century music, Boethius and tonality, and researching Holocaust musicology. In 2022, she presented a lecture recital for StageFree DC, premiering reconstructed music written during the Holocaust, a project for which she was a Fulbright Scholar Semifinalist in Jerusalem, Israel.

Ms. Jaeger moved to Virginia from South Carolina in 2019, where she currently resides in Leesburg with her three small parrots. She loves all things avian, equine, literary, and artistic. As a freelance artist, she enjoys painting, sculpting, and woodburning in her free time, and has previously designed backdrops for theater companies. When she is not practicing, you can find her at a local aviary, hiking, or in a café with a book.