BOTH HANDS — I like that music helps us figure things out. On the other hand, I like that music can’t entirely be figured out. I like music that is full of feelings (mole tam, full of flavor, as my grandmother used to say), and I like when music is an exploration of ideas, values, and worldview – two hands playing around with sound and momentum and qualities of motion, and gesture, proportion, contrasts, patterns, and clutter, and how we feel and think when some of those change – or on the other hand, when some of them don’t. I like thinking of music as moving the way our thoughts and feelings move, and I also like thinking of pieces of music as microcosms or invented realities, each piece a world with its horizons and ways.

Press and Upcoming Events

New album of Jessica’s compositions to be released on Albany Records in fall 2026!

Click HERE to read Maureen Buja’s new article about Jessica’s piano quintet Be Seeing You.

Hear and see Be Seeing You on YouTube. Click here.

WETA radio special on Jessica Krash’s music with host John Banther, Wednesday, March 25 at 2pm

Recent Premieres

“Five Pieces about Women in the Sky” for solo piano. Premiere by Jessica Krash, Bennett Conservatory in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, March 2026

“Hand in Hand” for clarinet, alto sax, and piano commissioned by and played by the Salon Trio, Riverdale Park Arts Film + Music Competition, April 2024, Riverdale House Museum

“Between Friends” for piano duet, commissioned by Betty Miller. Premiere February 2024. Calvary Lutheran Church, Silver Spring, Maryland

“The Water is Wide” for chorus and orchestra,  commissioned by the City Choir of Washington, directed by Erin Freeman.  June 4, 2023, Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria, VA.

“The Imagined Wisdom of Bella Pavis” for solo violin, premiere by Jinan Laurentia Woo, violin, on February 2023, Roth Concert Series, Washington, DC