Jessica Troy wears a wide variety of freelance hats. She performs extensively on period instruments—Baroque ensembles of which she is a member or frequent guest include Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Opera Lafayette (Washington, D.C.), Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Sebastians, New York Baroque Inc., and American Classical Orchestra, and she has performed as a substitute with the European ensembles Il Pomo d’Oro and Anima Eterna Brugge. On modern viola she performs with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center (formerly known as Mostly Mozart), New York City Opera, NOVUS NY, and Westchester Philharmonic, among others. Playing chamber music for dance, she has performed with Dance Heginbotham and has toured extensively with the Mark Morris Dance Group—from Sydney to San Juan, and Moscow, Idaho to Moscow, Russia—including performances with Yo-Yo Ma across the U.S. and Japan. A participant at many illustrious summer festivals, she can be heard on the Marlboro Festival’s 50th anniversary CD in György Kurtág’s Microludes for string quartet, which she prepared with the composer. She has subbed and had her own chair on numerous Broadway shows (ranging from Porgy and Bess to Tootsie) and played on many film scores (where unusually her worlds collided; on the Joker soundtrack she plays both Baroque and modern viola). She has recorded quartet tracks for Lou Reed and Ani DiFranco, performed on television with Renée Fleming and Whitney Houston, and on film with David Byrne.