Jennifer Bouton has performed around the world as a guest artist, clinician, and orchestral musician. A member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2011, she performed two seasons with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and has played guest roles with the Chicago Symphony and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, among others. In 2019 she won an extended appointment with the Australian Ballet and Australian Opera in Melbourne, and was invited to become a permanent member of Orchestra Victoria.

Jennifer’s album of the Vivaldi Piccolo concertos is the first complete recording of the concerti by an American piccoloist. She has performed the most famous of these, the C Major concerto (RV 443), numerous times, including a performance with the Milwaukee Symphony and Nicholas McGegan in 2023. Her own edition of the Vivaldi Piccolo concertos will be published in 2025.

Ms. Bouton has been a featured guest artist in numerous American and international festivals, including the Grant Park Music Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, Peninsula Music Festival, Arizona Music Festival, Sunflower Music Festival, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival (Piccolo Fellowship), and AIMS Summer Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. In 2012 she was a prize-winner in the National Flute Association's Piccolo Artist Competition.

Jennifer is currently Artist Faculty at Roosevelt University and Carthage College; she has held prior faculty positions at Wisconsin Lutheran College and Carroll University. In 2009 Jennifer was an assistant editor and research assistant for the publication of the revised edition of Jeanne Baxtresser's essential book, Orchestral Excerpts for Flute (Presser). Other publication credits include contributing editor, interview subject, and columnist for Flute Talk Magazine and The Instrumentalist. As a Wm. S. Haynes Performing Artist, she plays a custom 10K gold flute with a 19.5K headjoint. She plays a custom Keefe piccolo with a cocus headjoint and 14K gold sleeve.

Ms. Bouton received a Master of Music degree and Certificate in Advanced Flute Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory. Her teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Alberto Almarza, and Marina Piccinini. Originally from Denver, Colorado, in her spare time Jennifer enjoys being active outdoors with her husband and two young daughters.