Lauded for playing “with fire and commitment” by Schenectady’s Daily Gazette, flutist Jill Sokol is an established presence on the Northeast music scene. Jill is Second Flutist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and often plays flute and piccolo with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra and Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Previous music affiliations include the Dicapo Opera Theatre and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, as well as the New Haven, Westchester, and Albany Symphonies. Jill has also performed with popular performers Josh Groban, Natalie Merchant, Jane Birkin, The Irish Tenors and The Who, and she works regularly in chamber music since performing at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival.

Jill is a strong advocate of new music. She received a grant to perform at the 2020 edition of Vassar College’s Modfest, and she has performed with the Locrian Chamber Players, Argento Chamber Ensemble, and SEM Ensembles.  Her efforts in new music were recognized in 2007 by The New York Times, which praised her quartet performance of Vladimir Tarnopolski’s “Scenes From the Real Life” as “serious fun.” ​

Jill supports music’s next generation of talent not only by championing the work of young composers, but also by teaching aspiring performers. She was on faculty at Skidmore College, served as instructor and performer with​ the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young People’s Concerts, and worked on educational outreach with the American Composers Orchestra. Currently, Jill is an Adjunct Professor at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.

​Jill is based in northern New Jersey where she and her husband are raising two boys, three cats, and one rabbit. Jill provides private flute instruction to K-12 students and adult learners from South Orange, Maplewood, Millburn, and Montclair. Additionally, Jill is the Artistic Director of the newly founded SOMA Salon Concert Series, a series dedicated to bringing chamber music to South Orange and Maplewood. After completing her undergraduate education at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Jill earned her Master’s and Doctorate degrees at Peabody Conservatory of Music and Stony Brook University, respectively.