Hans Jørgen Jensen is professor of cello at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. From 1979 to 1987 he was professor of cello at the Moore’s School of Music at the University of Houston. During the summer, he is a faculty member at The Meadowmount School of Music and The Young Artist Program at the National Arts Center in Ottawa Canada under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman. He has been a guest professor at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, The Oberlin College Conservatory, The Eastman School of Music, The Academy of Music in Sydney, The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, the Tokyo College of Music and the Musashino Academy of Music in Japan, the Festival de Musica de Santa Catarina in Brazil, The Jerusalem Music Center, and the PyeongChang International festival and School in Korea. 

Hans Jørgen Jensen’s former students hold positions in major orchestras worldwide, including The New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and orchestras in Portugal and Austria. They serve as principal cellists in multiple symphonies including Toronto, Detroit, and Copenhagen, and teach at prestigious institutions such as Northwestern University, University of California at Berkeley, and the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. His students have won first prizes in numerous competitions, including the 2017 Klein Competition, 2017 Sphinx Competition, Casado International Competition in Japan, and have been prizewinners in the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Inaugural Cello Competition, Naumburg International Competition, and others.