About Jill Bartee

Jill Bartee is originally from El Paso, Texas and now lives in the Houston, Texas area.

She has been playing clarinet since she was twelve years old and saxophone soon after.

She is a member of Celestial Harmony. They perform for weddings and other special

events. Jill played in a masterclass with Larry Combs who was the principal clarinetist

for the Chicago Symphony. She also studied with Comb's protege, Dr. David Ross,

at the University of Texas at El Paso where she received a Bachelor's of Music Education degree

for all levels of music. In addition, she played with the El Paso Symphony for nearly

ten years. For seven of those years, she was also a band director. Jill has been a

Clarinet/ Saxophone teacher for twenty-three years. All levels of music is what she loves to 

teach. Jill takes a student from where they are musically and teaches them progressively

more difficult music to advance them to where they want to be on their instrument.