SHADINGS

Kristin Wolfe Jensen
Bassoon

Kristin Wolfe Jensen is the bassoon professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She frequently performs with the Austin Chamber Music Center, the UT Faculty Chamber Players, the Orchestra of Saint David's and as an extra player with the San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin Symphony Orchestras. She has performed solo recitals at the International Double Reed Society conferences in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1995), at Northwestern University (1997), and at Arizona State University (1998), and has given guest recitals and master classes at a number of universities, including the University of Southern California, the University of the Pacific, the University of Colorado, Michigan State, the University of Michigan, the Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University, and Baylor University. Her other chamber music and solo recordings can be heard on the Cambria, Opus One, Klavier, and Centaur labels.

In the past, Kristin Wolfe Jensen has served on the faculties of the University of North Texas and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has been a member of The Dallas Opera Orchestra, the Nevada Symphony, the Sierra Wind Quintet, Continuum and the Jupiter Symphony of New York. As a student, she won the concerto competitions at the Juilliard School of Music in 1990 and the Oberlin Conservatory in 1989, which led to performances of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto, k. 191. She participated in several summer music festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music School, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the International Festival Institute at Round Top. Ms. Jensen grew up in Storrs Connecticut, and holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, and Bachelor of Music Education and Performance degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory. Her musical mentors include Steven Maxym, William Winstead, Chuck Ullery, Eric Arbiter, Larry Rachleff, Kenneth Moore, Cynde Iverson, and Lou Lazzerini.