Hans Jørgen Jensen
Professor, Cello
h-jensen@northwestern.edu - 847-491-4770
Soloist diploma, Royal Academy of Music, Denmark
Faculty member, Meadowmount School of Music. Soloist with Copenhagen Symphony, Danish Radio Orchestra, Irish Radio Orchestra, and Basel Symphony Orchestra. Winner of Jacob Gades Prize, Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs Grant for Musicians, Copenhagen Music Critics Prize of Honor, and Artist International Competition in New York. Named outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year by Illinois chapter, American String Teachers Association; recipient, U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award, U.S. Department of Education. Students have won prizes in numerous national and international competitions. Studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. Private studies and master classes with Pierre Fournier.
Susan Babini
Lecturer, cello (orchestral repertoire)
susan.babini@northwestern.edu
BACKGROUND
Susan Babini is the Dorothea C. Mayer Cello Chair of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Also an avid chamber musician, Ms. Babini was named principal cello of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. She toured Central Asia as a member of the Phoenix String Quartet, under the auspices of Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State. She has also performed and taught throughout Panama as part of the Tres Americas Project and toured with the Mark Morris Dance Company. A participant of the Tanglewood Music Festival, Italy’s Spoleto Festival, and at the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Chesapeake, Delaware, and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals, she has also performed in Germany’s Kronberg masterclasses. She has collaborated with such artists as Bernard Greenhouse, Gilbert Kalish, Manahem Pressler, Joseph Silverstein, Mistuko Uchida, and Donald Weilerstein. Susan Babini received both a Bachelor and a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a graduate diploma from The Juilliard School, where she was a teaching assistant for Bonnie Hampton.
