Julian Jenson
Julian Jenson, M.M., M.M., B.M.
Born in Southern California to a musical family, Julian Jenson began conducting and piano lessons at an early age. Since those days, he has toured the world as an accomplished performer and passionate music teacher with the purpose to use music to improve the community and the world.
Julian has appeared as a soloist or chamber musician in distinguished concert halls, schools, hospitals, churches, and other venues across the Pacific Coast of America, Italy, Iceland, Japan, and Chile. He has appeared on TV, radio, and streaming services as a pianist and singer.
Julian’s love for vocal collaboration began in high school and deepened when he met his wife, Susana Leiva, a talented soprano. Thanks to the breadth of his experience, he is fluent in a wide range of vocal music styles and has co-written, arranged, and played in albums of vocal jazz, classical, music theatre, folk, and sacred music. A bass singer himself, Julian understands the needs of singers and brings his entire musicality into his collaborative arts.
Julian’s passion for teaching blossomed during his freshman year of college when he started tutoring his classmates in music theory and teaching private piano lessons to children and young adults in his community. By his senior year, he was the TA for all music theory classes at La Sierra University. While working on his Master’s in Music Theory at Florida State University, he taught multiple music theory classes and tutored over 100 hundred students.
Today, he maintains an active piano studio and tutoring base, helping students of all ages reach their fullest potential in music, whether they’re in high school or out of graduate school. Julian attributes his successes in life to the efforts of many mentors who contributed to his musicianship and development as a person. His mission is to do the same for the next generation after him.
Beyond his professional engagements, Julian enjoys sharing music to a wide audience. His faith in Jesus Christ has informed his philosophy that musicians can make the world a more beautiful place through acts of service to their communities. Together with his wife, he remains an active church musician in New Jersey.