Musicians

Violin
· Brian Lewis, Concertmaster
· Brinna Brinkerhoff
· Aloysia Friedmann
· Jonathan Godfrey
· Andrés González
· Rachel Jordan
· Rasa Kalesnykaite
· Kana Kimura
· Maxine Kuo
· Tammy Linn
· Deborah Tien Price
· Oleg Sulyga
· Amy Thiaville

Viola
· Matt Dane
· Suzanne LeFevre
· Tawnya Popoff
· Lorento Golofeev

Cello
· Richard Belcher
· Julia Cleworth
· Erika Johnson
· Shino Hayashi

Bass
· Sandor Ostlund
· Erik Gronfor

Harp
· Mollie Marcuson

Flute/Piccolo
· Christina Jennings
· Jennifer Keeney

Oboe
· Alecia Lawyer

Clarinet
· Nathan Williams
· Maiko Sasaki

Bassoon
· Kristin Wolfe Jensen
· Daniel Chrisman

Horn
· Danielle Kuhlmann
· Gavin Reed

Trumpet
· Jens Lindemann
· Dan Shipman
· George Chase

Trombone
· Brian Logan

Percussion
· Matthew McClung

Piano
· Kimi Kawashima
· Rodney Waters

Kristin Wolfe Jensen Instrument: Bassoon Originally from: Storrs, CT Now reside in: Austin, TX Age: 43 Birthday: May 5

How did you get started? I started bassoon at age 12 after having had some recorder lessons, some piano lessons, experience singing in a chorus, and playing the flute for a year. I wanted to find a voice more individual than the flute provided me, as one of 15 flute players in my middle school band.

What do you do when you’re not playing with ROCO? I am full-time faculty at UT Austin, teaching bassoon and chamber music. I do guest master classes at other universities, and make solo and chamber music recordings. I like exercising and playing with my daughter, Annika and husband, Stig.

What are you listening to on your iPod? John Denver, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

What did you do this summer? I recorded several pieces for multiple bassoons with my former students as a way to showcase their talents, and to have fun playing beautiful music. One of the pieces was written by one of my former bassoon students, Sean Craypo, and my teaching assistant, Nathan Koch and I arranged the other pieces. The CD should be released on Longhorn Music in the next year. I spent three weeks in residence at the idyllic International Festival Institute at Round Top (right down the road!) working with talented students and enjoying performance opportunities in the festival's inspirational setting. At the end of the summer, I had a chance to unwind with my extended family on a lake in rural Maine where I swam across the lake every day, ate blueberries off the bushes in the yard, and soaked up the wilderness on peaceful kayak rides. All in all, my summer provided a great balance of artistic stimulation, family time and rest to gear me up for another rewarding year with the University of Texas and ROCO!

Personal info: One husband, and one daughter who is seven.

Interests outside music: Swimming, kayaking on a serene lake in Maine.

Links: www.musicandthebassoon.org; www.tncmusic.net/product_info.php?products_id=1077

Education: Bachelor of Music Education and Performance, Oberlin Conservatory; Master of Music, the Juilliard School.

Bio: Kristin Wolfe Jensen, world-renowned performer and teacher, has been the bassoon professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 1995, and is also on the faculty of the International Festival Institute at Round Top. She is Principal Bassoonist with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, and has made a number of acclaimed solo and chamber music recordings. The American Record Guide reviewer said of Ms. Jensen’s solo CD Shadings, “...She has simply turned in the finest-played Bassoon recital I have ever heard... She obviously sees tone quality as the foundation for her fluent technique...It is a ravishing sound, siren-like in its attractive flair...Ms. Jensen could teach a lot about musicality to a number of famous violinists…”. She is awaiting the 2009 release of Parables and Reflections, bassoon music of Virko Baley, on the TNC label. Ms. Jensen has toured Europe with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, served as Acting Principal Bassoonist of the Houston Grand Opera, and has been a member of The Dallas Opera Orchestra, the Richardson Symphony, the Las Vegas Symphony, Jupiter Symphony of New York and Continuum. She has performed solo recitals at several International Double Reed Society conferences, and was co-host of the 2005 conference in Austin. An esteemed pedagogue, she has given guest recitals and master classes at many major American music schools and her former UT students hold major orchestral positions and university teaching positions around the country. Formerly, Ms. Jensen served on the faculties of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of North Texas. As a student, she won the concerto competitions at the Juilliard School of Music in 1990 where she received her MM, and the Oberlin Conservatory in 1989 as an undergraduate, which led to performances of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto, k. 191. She is Co-director of the biennial Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition for young women bassoonists from the Americas, providing the largest prizes of any bassoon competition in the world.