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He is also a regular guest at several music festivals.
His artistic career is well documented on CD, with piano accompaniment as well as chamber music works and bassoon concertos.
Dag Jensen was Professor at the Hanover Academy of Music and Theatre from 1997 to 2011, and since 2011 he has been Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
The Norwegian bassoonist, Dag Jensen, began bassoon lessons at the age of 11 with Robert Rönnes.
Dag Jensen has been Professor at the Hanover Academy of Music and Theatre since 1997.
Dag Jensen is a world-famous bassoonist, a very unique soloist and recognised virtuoso.
He won his first orchestral position with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 16 and was promoted to co-principal of the same orchestra soon after. Jensen began his recording career in 1995, joining pianist Midori Kitagawa for a recording of bassoon-and-piano works on the MDG label. He is a member of the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and the Mito Chamber Orchestra, both with Seiji Ozawa as artistic director.
The list of world-class orchestras with which he has made solo appearances is long, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul. He has made several more recordings for MDG, as well as albums for Animato (of Bach's viola da gamba sonatas transcribed for bassoon), Capriccio, and Mirare, where he was heard with Meyer and others on a 2020 recording of Schubert's Octet in F major, D.
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He is also Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.
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Biography
Dag Jensen was born in Horten, Norway and began bassoon lessons at the age of eleven with Robert Rönnes. Born in Norway, he started his career early on as an orchestra player.
Jensen held orchestral posts with the Bamberg Symphony (1985-1988) and the Cologne Radio Symphony (1988-1997), and he has continued to perform in an orchestral role in Japan with conductor Seiji Ozawa's Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and Mito Chamber Orchestra. He won his first orchestral position with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of sixteen and was promoted to co-principal of the same orchestra soon after.
In such a phase, you are “in the flow” and don’t have to think too much about many things when making music. I had been principal bassoonist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra for about five years and was in a phase where I constantly had to perform at my best. I was absolutely stunned and fascinated by all these fine nuances, I wanted to intensly absorb this amazing level of mastery.
– What’s the secret behind such brilliant music making?
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He won the ARD competition twice and quickly established himself as a celebrated chamber musician and brilliant bassoon soloist, playing with eminent orchestras and high-ranking conductors of our time. He continued to study with Prof. Klaus Thunemann in Hanover.
He was principal bassoonist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1988 and held the same position in the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1997.
During this period, he continued his studies in Hannover, West Germany, with Klaus Thunemann.