Biography

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. Jensen’s creative offerings have been performed by Juno/Grammy Award-winning artists (Bobby McFerrin, The Swingle Singers, Heather Rankin) by celebrated choirs (Zvonky Praha, Voices of Namibia, Elmer Iseler Singers) and symphony orchestras alike (TUCCA Philharmonic, Orchestra Teatro Puccini, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg). 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.  Jensen has enjoyed repeat engagements as vocal director, arranger, pianist, and composer for CBC Television’s Schitt’s Creek. 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, The Ruach Singers and The Watch. Aaron co-founded SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival, an international a cappella series which has presented over five hundred events since its inception, and has received three-time designation as Top 100 Festivals from Festivals and Events Ontario; Jensen acted as SING!’s Artistic Director from 2011-2015.  Jensen is currently the Composer-in-Residence of the Canadian Men’s Chorus, the Artistic Director of Countermeasure Music, the Artist-in-Resident at Beth Sholom Synagogue, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. In his spare time, Aaron designs escape rooms for House of Teams.

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. 

Having recently returned to his roots in musical theatre, Jensen has participated as a composer/lyricist in Musical Stage Co.’s Noteworthy program (2019), contributed to Eclipse Theatre Company’s Musical Theatre Lab (2018), and co-wrote the 10 minute musical, Midnight Laundromat, which was voted ‘Audience Favourite’ at Driftwood Theatre Co.’s Trafalgar 24 (2018). Jensen’s musical Everything There is to Know was workshopped at Toronto Fringe (2017), produced by David Warrack. 14 Characters, with music and lyrics by Jensen, received 5-Star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2016). His first full-scale musical theatre work, O.E.D., was commissioned by Broadway North Theatre Co. in 2006 and was premiered in a two-week run at the E. A. Rawlinson Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, with a fifty-person cast and full band.

Discography