Jennifer Bellor is currently a Ph.D student in music composition at the Eastman School of Music studying with David Liptak and Robert Morris.

She was recognized with The Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize in 2008 and 2009.

She holds an M.M. in composition at Syracuse University where she studied with Andrew Waggoner and Sally Lamb, and was the recipient of The Brian Israel Award in Composition in 2007, and certificate in university teaching for her teaching fellow position in The Future Professoriate Program.

She completed her B.A. in music cum laude at Cornell University where she studied with Steven Stucky and was the recipient of The Barbara Troxell Vocal Award in 2004.

Jennifer attended The Aspen Music Festival in 2008 as a Susan and Ford Schumann Fellow studying with Sydney Hodkinson in the individual studies program, and attended The Seal Bay Festival in 2007 and 2008 as a composition intern.

She was a participant in the Buffalo Philharmonic Young Composers' Readings in 2007 for her orchestral work, "Chimera." She has been commissioned by The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, Society for New Music, Reuben Blundell and the Millersville University orchestra, The Women in Music Festival at Eastman, and Peachtree United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA with organist Nicole Marane and brass members from the Atlanta Symphony. Her piece, "Stars," for soprano and marimba was performed on the 2009 Eastman China Tour in May.