Born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Ingrid Jensen has been hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1989, she went on to record three highly acclaimed CDs for the ENJA record label, soon becoming one of the most in-demand players on the global jazz scene.
After a teaching stint in Europe in her early twenties – as the youngest professor in the history of the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, Austria – Ingrid settled in New York City in where she joined the innovative jazz orchestras of Maria Schneider and Darcy James Argue. More recently, Ingrid has been performing with the Grammy-winning Teri-Lyne Carrington and her Mosaic Project and is a featured soloist on Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra’s Juno-award-winning album, Treelines (2011), and its successor, Habitat (2013). She has performed with a multi-generational cast of jazz legends ranging from Clark Terry to Esperanza Spalding; Ingrid has also performed alongside British R&B artist Corrine Bailey Rae on Saturday Night Live and recorded with Canadian pop icon Sarah McLachlan. In addition to her busy sideman and featured soloist schedule, Jensen leads her own quintet, quartet, and organ trio. Her own bands have garnered glowing reviews and a loyal fan base in Australia, South Africa, almost every country in Europe, across Canada, the US, South America (including Brazil, Peru and Chile), Japan and Mexico.
Jensen is also a dedicated jazz educator, having taught trumpet at the University of Michigan and Peabody Conservatory, performing, and lecturing as a guest artist with the Thelonious Monk Institute High School group featuring Herbie Hancock, and performing and teaching at the Centrum Jazz Workshop, The Brubeck Institute, the Banff Centre Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music, the Stanford Jazz Camp, Jazz Camp West and more. She is the current Artist-in-Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is a regular faculty member at the prestigious Jazz Focus Year program in Bern, Switzerland.
Ingrid’s recent projects and recordings include a release of the NPR supported Kenny Wheeler Project featuring Geoffrey Keezer, and a highly acclaimed quintet release called Infinitude on the Whirlwind record label featuring her sister Christine and guitar Ben Monder and the three highly acclaimed Blue Note releases with the band Artemis. Her latest recording on Neuvelle records, features the legendary saxophonist, George Coleman and her latest organ trio with Gary Versace, Jon Wikan and Marvin Sewell.
Ingrid is based in Westchester, New York and is currently on the jazz trumpet faculty after serving as Dean and Director of Jazz Arts at Manhattan School of Music from 2020-2025. Ingrid plays Monette trumpets and mouthpieces.