Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen performs with the Humber Jazz Big Band and the Forward Motion Ensemble on Friday, February 23, 2024.
Hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation, the New York-based Canadian will be the featured artist-in-residence, performing a sizzling set with the powerful 18-piece Humber Jazz Big Band led by composer/arranger Shelly Berger. The concert program will also feature new modern jazz pieces for trumpet and the funk groove-based Forward Motion Ensemble, directed by acclaimed bassist Rich Brown.
Originally from Victoria, BC, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Jensen went on to solidify a reputation as one of the most in-demand trumpet players on the global jazz scene, after the release of her albums Vernal Fields (Enja label, 1994); Here on Earth (1997) and Higher Grounds (1999).
After touring Europe with the Vienna Art Orchestra, Jensen remained to teach jazz trumpet, becoming, at age 25, the youngest professor at Austria's Bruckner Conservatory. In 1994 Jensen settled in New York City where she joined the big band DIVA Jazz Orchestra and the innovative jazz ensembles of Maria Schneider (1994-2012) and Darcy James Argue (2002-present). In addition to leading her own bands and performing with Grammy-winning drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jensen is the current Dean of Jazz Arts at Jensen at the Manhattan School of Music and a dedicated jazz educator. Humber Music is pleased to have Ingrid Jensen as the featured artist-in-residence this year, to work with the students in an intensive period of lectures, workshops, rehearsals and concerts.
This will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable concerts taking place in the GTA this year.
