Mr. Jensen adds conducting the Rockford Wind Ensemble to an eclectic career in music--one that has included a diverse mix of instrumental and vocal music: jazz, musical theater, computer and MIDI technology, arranging and writing.

He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Illinois State University in both instrumental and choral music education.  While at ISU, he served as drum major of the "Big Red Marching Machine" and staff arranger for the School of Music.  He studied composition with Roque Codero.

Mr. Jensen is an acclaimed composer with nearly forty commercially published works and over a hundred freelance commissioned works to his credit.  In 2000, he collaborated with Mike Webb to create a full-length musical, "The Storyteller's Story", based on the life of Hans Christian Andersen that was produced as part of Rock Valley College's popular starlight theater series.

Mr. Jensen began his teaching career in Eureka and Batavia, IL.  Since 1990, he has taught music and drama at Harlem High School in Machesney Park, IL.  His wife, Amy, teaches choir and piano classes at Hononegah High School.  They have three children.

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