Dr. Joni Jensen

 Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Choral Activities

Academic Areas:
Choirs, Voice, Conducting, Aural Skills, Art Song Literature

Degrees:
D.M.A in Choral Conducting, Minor in Vocal Performance, University of Arizona
M.M. in Choral Conducting, Brigham Young University
B.M. in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, Minor in Psychology, Brigham Young University, Summa Cum Laude

Phone: (940) 898-2503
Email: jjensen1@twu.edu

 

Dr. Joni Jensen is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Choral Activities at Texas Woman’s University. She conducts TWU’s two choirs and teaches voice, aural skills, conducting and graduate art song literature. She is also Vice Chair of the Undergraduate Council. 

Dr. Jensen studied under renowned conductors and arrangers Dr. Mack Wilberg and Dr. Ronald Staheli. During her doctoral work, she was a semi-finalist in the American Choral Directors Association national graduate conducting competition in Los Angeles, February 2005. 

Although Dr. Jensen has ample experience conducting choirs at all levels, she specializes in university ensembles and women’s choirs. Her success as a conductor has led to many invitations to conduct numerous church and community choirs, adjudicate for competitions, and present clinics. One of her greatest honors was an invitation to conduct a choir for the Latter-day Saints General Relief Society meeting in the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The event was broadcast internationally to over four million viewers. Performing in a solo capacity has also been a large part of Dr. Jensen’s career. She has performed in both operatic and concert events and has particular expertise in baroque music and performance practice.

Aside from her performing and teaching activities, Dr. Jensen has research interests in vocal pedagogy in the choral setting, choral conducting technique, women’s chorus literature, choral arranging, and the choral music of Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Bach.

Related Links:
Concert Choir
Chamber Singers
American Choral Directors Association 
National Association of Teachers of Singing 


Courses numbers and titles:

Undergraduate

MU 1521, 1531 Aural Skills I and II
MU 2091, 2092, 4091, 4092 Voice
MU 3542 Conducting
MU 3551 Concert Choir
MU 3591 Chamber Singers
MU 3553 Secondary Music and Conducting


Graduate

MU 5091, 5092 Voice
MU 5553 Music Literature (Art Song)