Christine Jensen

Sponsored by Westwood International, the Brass Lantern Inn and Firefly Productions bring you ‘Jazz at the Lantern’ a genuine, small jazz club style experience, once a month, in Stowe, Vermont. Join us in May 2024 for Christine Jensen. Reserve a table, order charcuterie or bruschetta and buy a bottle of wine, a beer or a cocktail at the available cash bar to enjoy the musicians up close, mingle in the Inn's lounges with its comfy couches and roaring fire.

Canadian composer and saxophonist Christine Jensen has contributed a distinctive voice to creative jazz scene with large and small ensemble for the last twenty-five years. As a Downbeat Critic’s Poll winner for Rising Star Big Band, Arranger, and Soprano Saxophonist, she is constantly in motion leading her own jazz orchestra and small ensemble. Her jazz orchestra recordings have gone on to win Juno awards, including Habitat (2014) and Treelines (2011). She is two-time recipient of SOCAN’s Hagood Hardy Jazz Composer Award. Habitat received the coveted 5 stars in Downbeat, along with Jazz Album of the Year, while making the top of several international critic’s polls. In 2017, Jensen was awarded The Prix Oscar Peterson from the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Jensen’s music has taken her all over the world, where she has received commissions, performance and conducting opportunities in Canada, the US and Europe. In 2023 she led the HR Big band-Frankfurt in conducting and arranging with Mark Turner and his music, alongside her mentor and teacher Jim McNeely. She has appeared as invited guest artist with Frost School of Music-UMiami, The New School-NY, University of Michigan, UMO Jazz Orchestra-Finland, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Hard Rubber Orchestra, and Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra. She has performed with Jeremy Pelt, Phil Dwyer, Ben Monder, Gary Smuylan, Geoffrey Keezer, Lenny Pickett, and Donny McCaslin, as well as directing Terrence Blanchard with the Orchestre National Jazz de Montreal. She is founding artistic director and conductor of the Canadian National Jazz Orchestra. Between 2012 and 2022 she collaborated extensively with Orchestre National Jazz de Montreal, including composing, conducting and recording Under The Influence Suite, which went on to receive the Prix Opus for jazz recording of the year in 2017.

In 2022 Jensen joined the Eastman faculty as professor of jazz studies, where she teaches jazz composition and arranging, as well as directing the award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble. Since 2006, she has also held saxophone, composition and arranging positions at McGill University, Purchase College (NY), University of Sherbrooke, Université de Montreal, as well as being artistic director of McGill Jazz Orchestra I, and small ensembles. Jensen has studied with Kenny Werner, Jim McNeely, Dick Oatts, Remi Bolduc and John Hollenbeck.

Christine will be backed by Evan Allen on keys, Jeremy Hill on bass and Geza Carr on the drums.

We appreciate you pre-ordering bruschetta or charcuterie. Wine and other beverages will be available for purchase on site as well as snacks. Your admission includes free desserts.

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