Hans Jørgen Jensen

Hans Jørgen Jensen

Hans Jørgen Jensen is currently Professor of Cello at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. During the summers he is a faculty member of the Meadowmount School of Music and the Young Artist Program at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman.  For the past five summers he has also  taught alternately at the Music Bridge Program of Mount Royal College and at Domaine Forget.  From 1979 to 1987 he served as Professor of Cello at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.  He has been a guest professor at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California,Oberlin Conservatory, the Tokyo College of Music, and the Musashino Academy of Music in Japan.

Mr. Jensen has performed as a soloist and recitalist in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan including appearances with the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Symphony, and the Irish Radio Orchestra under the baton of conductors Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovitch, and Carlo Zecchi, among others.  He has given numerous workshops and master classes at venues across the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia including: the International Banff Centre, the Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto, the Indiana University School of Music, the National Cello Congress, the 2009 National ASTA Convention, the 2009 Australian Summer String Academy at the Sydney Conservatory of Music, and at more than 60 other music schools and festivals in the USA.
 
His former students hold positions in major orchestras and prestigious music schools including, but not limited to: the New York Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Portugal, the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Peabody Institute, Sao Paulo State University in Brazil, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Manitoba.

Mr. Jensen’s students have also won top prizes in the MTNA National Competition, the ASTA National Competition, the Sphinx Competition, the Stulberg International Competition, the Madison Symphony Young Artist Competition, the Corpus Christi International Competition, the Hellam Young Artists Competition, the Chicago Symphony Young Performers’ Competition, the Milwaukee Symphony Young Artist Competition, the Fort Collins Symphony Association National Young Artist Competition, the Kingsville International Competition, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.  They are prizewinners in the WAMSO Young Artist Competition, the Johansen International Competition, the Klein International Competition, the Tchaikovsky International Competition, the Lutoslavski International Cello Competition, and more than 40 other competitions.

Mr. Jensen was awarded the Copenhagen Music Critics’ Prize, the Jacob Gades Prize, the Gladsaxe Music Prize, and the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs Grant for Musicians.  He was the winner of the Artist International Competition that resulted in three New York recitals.  He has received the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music Exemplar in Teaching Award and been named the Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year by Illinois ASTA.  In 2001 he was awarded the U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award by the U.S. Department of Education.  The music publishing company E.C. Schirmer of Boston prints his transcription of The Galamian Scale System for Violoncello Volumes I and II while the Shar Products Company publishes his popular cello method book, Fun in Thumb Position

Mr. Jensen received a Soloist Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark as a student of Asger Lund Christiansen.  He later continued his studies at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins and practiced chamber music under Robert Mann and Earl Carlyss.  In Geneva, Switzerland, he studied under cellist Pierre Fournier.