Currently Jennifer Griffith is collaborating with librettist Estela Eaton in a new buffa about backstage opera; her chamber opera Dream President was presented in New York City Opera’s VOX 2004. She is also earning a doctorate degree in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies with David Del Tredici and Tania León. She has also studied piano in Paris and sings jazz at NYC venues. Her bestiary “A Little Beastliness for Guitar” can be heard on Oren Fader’s cd First Flight.