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Susan Jensen
Violinist Susan Jensen has concertised throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a respected performer and proponent of new music. As an active chamber musician and recording artist in Los Angeles for more than a decade, Ms. Jensen performed three complete cycles of the Beethoven string quartets as a member of the Southwest Chamber Music Society, with whom she also recorded Works of Ernst Krenek (Orfeo Records) with Phyllis Bryn-Julson. As assistant principal second violinist and tenured member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale Symphonia, Jensen recorded Morten Lauridsen's Grammy nominated Lux Aeterna (RCM Records); and as assistant concertmaster of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra with Lucinda Carver conducting, she recorded Symphonies of Mozart (RCM Records). Additionally, Ms. Jensen was principal violinist for the critically-acclaimed contemporary music group XTET, ensemble-in-residence at the Los Angeles County Museum where she performed regularly on its historic Monday Evening Concerts series. She further served as associate concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra for eight years, and as a tenured member of the Los Angeles Opera, she worked under the direction of Maestro Kent Nagano and Artistic Director Placido Domingo. She also performed as soloist and concertmaster for the Eastern Sierra Music Festival under the direction of Bogidar Avromov for eight seasons. While a member of the the Recording Musicians Association of Los Angeles (RMALA), Ms. Jensen's motion picture and television recording credits include work on the film scores of Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Van Dyke Parks, Jeff Beal and Don Davis, as well as the television shows West Wing, Third Watch, Providence and American Dream. She also performed on record projects for Jeff Lynne, Brian Wilson, Laurence Juber, Aerosmith and Bill Medley, among many others. In 2003, Ms. Jensen relocated to Denver, Colorado to join the Da Vinci String Quartet, which included a vigorous touring and performance schedule on a statewide concert series, a faculty appointment at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, and an artist residency at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. As a member of the prize-winning quartet, Jensen commissioned new works for string quartet, made television and radio appearances and toured the United States performing and presenting master classes. During 2005-2007, Jensen lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts performing with the Boston Ballet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project , the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and various chamber music concerts. Ms. Jensen is a native of Canton, Ohio and was introduced to the violin at age 11 through an elementary school music program. She received the Bachelor of Music degree at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and the LaSalle and Tokyo string quartets. A student of Eudice Shapiro, she earned the Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California-during her tenure there, she was an Alpert Merit Scholar for two years, as well as a recipient of the George Kast Music Achievement Award and a violin fellowship at the Manchester Music Festival. Jensen plays a 1697 G.B. Rogeri violin. |
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Assistant Professor, Violin