Rate My Professor Hans Jørgen Jensen

Jensen has performed as a soloist across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan with orchestras such as the Danish Radio Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Symphony, and Irish Radio Orchestra, under conductors including Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Carlo Zecchi. He has presented workshops and master classes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Brazil, Korea, Australia, and Israel. His students hold positions in major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra in Portugal, Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and Montreal Symphony. Former students serve as principal cellists of the Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, and Symphony Nova Scotia, and teach at institutions such as Northwestern University, University of California at Berkeley, Cleveland Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. His students have won first prizes in the 2017 Klein Competition, 2017 Sphinx Competition, Casado International Competition in Japan, Johansen International Competition, MTNA National Competition, ASTA National Competition, Stulberg International Competition, Chicago Symphony Young Performers Competition, WAMSO Young Artist Competition, and prizes in the Queen Elisabeth Inaugural Cello Competition, Naumburg International Competition, Lutoslawski Cello Competition, and Klein Competition. Jensen received the 2010 American String Teachers Association Artist Teacher Award, Northwestern Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence award, U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award, Copenhagen Music Critics Prize, Jacob Gades Prize, Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs Grant for Musicians, and Illinois ASTA Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year. His publications include transcriptions of the Galamian Scale System for Cello Volumes I and II published by E.C. Schirmer in Boston, Fun in Thumb Position by Shar Products Company, and CelloMind published by Ovation Press in 2017. He has also conducted the Northwestern Cello Ensemble in recordings such as Shadow, Echo, Memory and Canticles of the Sky.