BOLLE, Jocelyn (Faulkner) Age 91, of Bedford, MA and Harrisville, NH, died Saturday, April 7,
2023 of complications from heart disease. She was born in Keene, New Hampshire on June
22, 1931, the daughter of Kathrine H. (Kingsbury) and Philip H. Faulkner, Sr.
A gifted musician, Jocelyn studied composition at the Mannes College of Music and with the
composer Darius Milhaud. Jocelyn and her late husband, the composer and conductor,
James Bolle, founded the Monadnock Music Festival in 1966.
Jocelyn served as Executive Director of Monadnock Music for many years and was
instrumental in its development and growth as a preeminent music festival in New England.
Earlier in her career, she and her husband created the Chicago Community Music
Foundation to bring music education to schools on Chicago's South Side. She also taught
piano and was the organist at the Church of Our Saviour in Milford, NH.
In the 1950s and 60s, Jocelyn lived in New York City; Yellow Springs, OH; Stuttgart, Germany;
Saskatoon, Canada and Winnetka, IL, before returning to New Hampshire in 1968, where
she lived in Francestown and, more recently, in Harrisville. Wherever she made her home,
she was remarkable for her gift of creating community among musicians from across the
globe, neighbors, family and, in recent years, the caregivers who she added to her extended
family.
Since 2019 Jocelyn was a resident of Carleton Willard Village in Bedford, MA, where she
became an engaged member of this new community, as well as its resident poet. Friends
and family of all ages, from across the decades of her life, were frequent visitors.
Jocelyn is survived by her son, Ned Bolle (Linda Bolle) of Reading, MA; her daughter,
Susanna Bolle (Shaun Gummere) of Brookline, MA; her daughter-in-law, Maggie Grieve of
Washington, DC, and her granddaughter, Maia Grieve of New York, NY. She was predeceased
by her son Christopher Bolle of Washington, DC and her husband, James Bolle of Harrisville,
NH.
The family is planning a concert in her memory in Harrisville, NH later this summer.
Donations in Jocelyn's memory may be made to the Non-Event concert series, where her
daughter Susanna is Artistic Director (www.nonevent.org), or Monadnock Music
( www.monadnockmusic.org ).