Aaron Jensen is an internationally-published composer, arranger, producer and performer based out of Toronto, Canada. His love of vocal music, obsession with language, and passion for interweaving musical genres can be heard throughout his body of work. His creative offerings have been performed and recorded by JUNO/GRAMMY award-winning artists (Randy Brecker, Bobby McFerrin, Cindy Cashdollar, Heather Rankin, Ron Sexsmith, Patricia O’Callaghan and others); by celebrated choirs such as the Elora Festival Singers (CANADA), Zvonky Praha (CZECHIA), Voices of Namibia (NAMIBIA), and Swingle Singers (U.K.); and by symphony orchestras including the TUCCA Philharmonic (BRAZIL), Orchestra Teatro Puccini, (ITALY) and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg (FRANCE). Jensen has enjoyed repeat engagements as musical director, music producer, band leader and composer for CBC Television’s Schitt’s Creek. He is the the Artistic Director of Countermeasure, Artist-in-Residence at Beth Sholom Synagogue, recent Composer-in-Residence of the Canadian Men’s Chorus, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. Recordings of Jensen’s songs, arrangements, and compositions are played on syndicated radio stations worldwide, and have appeared on Global Television, CTV, CBC, BBC, FOX and many others. Since completing his studies in music composition at York University in 2006, he has toured internationally, and recorded with various musical groups including Cadence, Countermeasure, Retrocity, and The Watch. Aaron is the Artistic Director Emeritus and co-founder of SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival, an international a cappella series which has presented over five hundred events since its inception, and has received five-time designation as Top 100 Festivals from Festivals and Events Ontario; Jensen acted as SING!’s Artistic Director from 2011-2015.  

In 2015, ‘From Sea to Sea’ – an album of original vocal works composed by Jensen – was released on the Centrediscs label, and distributed by NAXOS Music. In 2011, Jensen was awarded the grand prize by the International John Lennon Songwriting Competition in the Jazz category. In 2009, he completed his first orchestral commission, which was premiered in Florence, Italy and has since been performed in Brazil, Turkey and France.

Having recently returned to his roots in musical theatre, Jensen has collaborated as a composer/lyricist in creative labs for Musical Stage Company and Eclipse Theatre Co. His new work Everything There is to Know was workshopped at Toronto Fringe 2017, produced by Musicals Canada and David Warrack. 14 Characters, written and musical directed by Jensen, received 5 STAR reviews at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in 2016. He collaborated as a lyricist for David Lidov’s opera, Paradise Lost, in 2014. His first full-scale work musical theatre work, O.E.D., was commissioned by Broadway North Theatre Company and was premiered in 2006 at the E. A. Rawlinson Centre, in Saskatchewan. Aaron is currently developing three new musical theatre works.

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