Hans Jørgen Jensen

Hans Jørgen Jensen has performed as a soloist and recitalist in the U.S., 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 in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea and Australia. Jensen’s former students have won numerous national and international competitions and hold positions in major music schools and symphony orchestras. Jensen was named the 2010 ASTA Artist Teacher and that same year was also named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. 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 have published 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. His most recent book CelloMind was published by OvationPress November of 2017.