has appeared as a flute soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, the Philippines, China, and Canada. The National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. awarded Jan Boland the highly coveted Solo Recitalist Fellowship for 1993-96: the award is given to "the nation's most promising solo instrumentalists to hone their musical virtuosity, and to enable these exceptional musicians to showcase their talents before a wide array of American audiences."

Boland and Dowdall have been featured performers at the Tage Alter Musik early music festival in Regensburg Germany, Festival Musica Antica in Magnano Italy, California Summer Arts, and the Boston Early Music Festival. In 1995 & 1999, the Duo gave concerts at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, performing on rare instruments from the Museum's collection. Boland's six compact disc recordings are on the Fleur De Son Classics, Titanic, Koch, and Centaur record labels. Two discs were named best disc of the month by the German early music publication Alte Musik Actuell.

The Duo performed on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in 1999 as representatives of the State of Iowa. The Boland-Dowdall Duo was named the 1987 winner of the National Chamber Music Competition sponsored by the National Flute Association.

Jan has been a featured performer at eight national conventions of the National Flute Association, including those in Washington D.C. and New York. She was named winner of the 1979 Baroque Flute Competition of the NFA. 

Boland was selected to a 26-member delegation from the National Flute Association to participate in a cultural exchange in the Peoples Republic of China. Boland has served on the Board of Directors of the National Flute Association and for five years chaired its Grants and Development Committee. In her capacities as an adjudicator, Jan served as a judge for competitions of the National Flute Association, including the International Young Artist Competition, the Baroque Flute Competition, and the Chamber Music Competition. She also served for three years as coordinator of the Young Artist Competition.

Dr. Boland is in demand as a teacher at summer festivals throughout the United States; in recent summers she has been on the faculty of the Boxwood Flute Symposium, California Summer Arts Festival, North Carolina's Wildacres Flute Symposium, and most recently at Red Cedar Chamber Music Festival (which she founded with John Dowdall). Boland is an adjunct faculty member at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

A respected scholar, her Method for One-Keyed Flute is published by the University of California Press/ Berkeley & London. The Method was named a winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition in 2000. Boland's editions of 19th-century flute music are published by Indiana University Press, ALRY and Southern Music. She has self-published the Historical Flute Tutor Series, a collection of 19th-century flute method books. In 1996, her edition of Stephen Foster's Parlor Music was named a winner of the Newly Published Music competition of the National Flute Association.

She is an Artist/Teacher at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Boland holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Flute Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa. She studied with Betty Bang Mather and Jerrold Pritchard and in master classes with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Peter Lloyd, Michel DeBost, and Stephen Preston.