Joni Jensen, DMA

Professor of Voice, Director of Choral Activities
Academic Areas: Choirs, Voice, Conducting

Phone: 940-898-2503 
Email: jjensen1@twu.edu 

Degrees:
DMA in Choral Conducting, Minor in Vocal Performance, University of Arizona
MM in Choral Conducting, Brigham Young University
BM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, Minor in Psychology, Brigham Young University, Summa Cum Laude

Dr. Jensen conducts two TWU choirs and teaches voice and conducting. She studied under renowned conductors and arrangers Mack Wilberg, Ronald Staheli, and Bruce Chamberlain.

Dr. Jensen has conducted numerous honor and festival choirs and serves as a choral clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States. She has most recently conducted all-state ensembles in Oklahoma, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Under her direction, the TWU Concert Choir (women’s chorus) has performed at the Southwest American Choral Directors Association Conference, the National Collegiate Choral Association Conference, the American Choral Directors Association National Conference, and the Texas Music Educators’ Association Conference in 2020. Dr. Jensen has several pieces published with Walton Music, including “El Vito,” which was a Texas all-state piece in 2014. She is also the editor of a series at Hal Leonard for advanced women’s choral music and has many pieces published there as well.

Dr. Jensen is also an associate musical director of the Millennial Choirs and Orchestras (MCO). MCO is a multi-location community organization, the largest of its kind in the world, and promotes the highest quality of sacred music for all ages. She conducts mainly in the Dallas, Utah and Idaho locations. Their album “Millennial Song,” released in October 2019, peaked at No. 1 on the Classical Album Billboard Chart.

Aside from her performing and teaching activities, Dr. Jensen has research interests in vocal pedagogy in the choral setting, choral conducting technique, baroque performance practice, women’s chorus literature and choral arranging.