Kirsten Jenson

Name:	Kirsten Jenson
Location:	Cambridge United Kingdom CB3
Contact:	07583926181 Send Kirsten Jenson a message

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Kirsten studied in London for a bachelor degree at the Guildhall School of Music with Louise Hopkins and Leonid Gorokhov, also taking lessons with Sue Lowe. She was invited to join the class of Johannes Goritzki, which led her to transfer her studies to the Royal Scottish Academy for the remainder of her bachelors. During her time in Glasgow she performed the Schumann Cello Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the City Halls, and since then has participated as a soloist and chamber musician in International masterclasses and festivals throughout the UK, German, France, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Italy, Indonesia and the US, alongside musicians such as Hariolf Schlichtig, Matthias Lingenfelder and Johannes Goritzki.

After completing her Masters degree with Johannes Goritzki in Lugano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, she was selected as a masterclass participant at the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, and numerous prizes and awards include the RSAMD Concerto Competition, the CSI Concerto Competition in Lugano, the Helen Winning Memorial Prize at the Tunbridge Wells International YCA Competition, the Scottish A. Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize, and most recently Best British Cellist at the 2016 International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso.

In 2014 Kirsten was cellist of the Fontanelli Quartet, who were selected as Park Lane Young Concert Artists, and was a founding member of The Milgram Trio. From 2014 - 2016 she was cellist of the full-time Ragazze Quartet in Holland, with whom she released two albums under the label Channel Classics, and performed regularly at major venues including the Royal Concertgebouw. Kirsten is now cellist of the London-based Dulcinea Quartet, who hold the Carne Fellowship at Trinity College in London from September 2016, alongside multiple tours to Japan booked for Autumn 2016.

Additional Specialisms:

Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance, Contemporary Music