Kyle Jensen

• Third Place, Donald Chen Young Artist Award Competition, North Shore Choral Society - 2018
• District Winner, MONC Auditions, Idaho/Montana, Northwest Region - 2016
• Encouragement Award, MONC Auditions Idaho/Montana, Northwest Region - 2015
• Voice Honor Recitalist, Brigham Young University, Idaho Rexburg, ID 2014 - 2016

Kyle Jensen has performed various solos and with various ensembles around the Chicago area, including Northwestern’s production of Faurè’s Requiem, a featured soloist with Baroque Music Ensemble, and a soloist in North Shore Choral Society’s 2018-2019 season concert “Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday”.

Among his various opera roles, he has performed Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Father Trulove and the cover for Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Coppelius and Dr. Miracle in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, and Colline in Puccini’s La bohème. Jensen has also recently debuted the title role in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Novafeltria, Italy with La Musica Lirica.

Jensen was a finalist in Idaho/Montana district for Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in 2016, and received an encouragement award in the year previous.

Hailing from Bear River City in Utah, Jensen received his master’s degree from Northwestern University under W. Stephen Smith, and his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University-Idaho under tutelage of Kristine Ciesinski. He is grateful for his loving wife Sarah and his two daughters, Lillian and Emily, in supporting him in his career as a performer.

Kyle Jensen currently resides in Utah with his wife and two children.