Aaron Jensen (he/him) is an award-winning Toronto-based composer, producer, performer, and clinician with a passion for collaboration, exploration, and community building. His music has been recorded and performed by GRAMMY and JUNO award-winning artists including Randy Brecker, Mariah Carey, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Larnell Lewis, and Natalie MacMaster. Jensen’s flair for vocal music, obsession with language, and penchant for interweaving musical genres can be heard throughout his body of work. Aaron had the pleasure of acting as musical director, music producer, band leader, and composer for the nine-time Emmy award winning, Schitt’s Creek. His musical services have been enlisted by Andrea Bocelli, eOne Entertainment, Bob Ezrin, and Barack and Michelle Obama. Aaron has contributed to platinum-selling, GRAMMY/JUNO award-nominated albums, and has earned several international CARA awards and nominations for his original music. He has twice been recognized by the International John Lennon Songwriting Competition, including a grand prize win for Best Jazz Composition. Jensen’s new works have been premiered by celebrated choirs – such as the Swingle Singers (UK), Zvonky Praha (CZECHIA), and Voices of Namibia (NAMIBIA) – and by symphony orchestras including the TUCCA Philharmonic (BRAZIL), Orchestra Teatro Puccini, (ITALY) and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg (FRANCE). As a performer, he’s shared the stage with the likes of Bobby McFerrin, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Folds, and Michael Burgess. He has toured the world several times over and recorded eight celebrated albums with Countermeasure, Cadence, The Watch, and Retrocity. As the Artistic Director of SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival – a ten-time “Best Festivals” honouree of Festivals & Events Ontario – Aaron worked hand-in-hand with Harbourfront Centre, Soulpepper, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and the National Film Board; he helped launch sister festivals in the U.S., Scotland, and Mexico.
Aaron’s theatre works include: DEATH & TAXES: workshopped by Arts Club Theatre (2022), Sheridan College (2025) and in development by Persephone Theatre (2026). DEATH & TAXES was finalist for ‘Best New Musical’ Tom Hendry Award (2023), and named #1 Stage Play of the month by Coverfly; BUT WHY/BECAUSE: a family dramedy co-written with Kaitlyn Riordan which is being developed by Capital Theatre (2026); CREATURE: a horror bio created with Sara Farb which was recently developed by Theatre Making Movement (2026); TREMBLER’S WALTZ – an experimental movement-driven work (workshop yet-to-be-announced – Fall 2026); THE CAT’S MEOW: written with screenwriter, Steven Peros, based on Peros’ 1997 play and 2002 Lionsgate film; THE TRIAL OF BASTIANO DI BOLOGNA: the #1 downloaded episode of NYC theatre podcast, Bite-Sized Broadway (2021); and music/lyric/dramaturgical contributions to THE BALLAD OF HENRY BOX BROWN, which was optioned for Broadway by four-time TONY-winning producers (2023). Aaron participated as a composer/lyricist in The Musical Stage Co.’s Noteworthy and Make Me a Song programs (2019), contributed to Eclipse Theatre Company’s Theatre Lab “HELD” (2018), and co-wrote the 10 minute musical, MIDNIGHT LAUNDROMAT with Sophia Fabiilli, which was voted ‘Audience Favourite’ at Driftwood Theatre Co.’s Trafalgar 24 (2018). Jensen’s musical EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW was workshopped at Toronto Fringe (2017). 14 CHARACTERS, with music and lyrics by Jensen, received ★★★★★ reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2016). His first full-scale musical, O.E.D., was commissioned by Broadway North Theatre Co. in 2006 and enjoyed a two-week run at the E. A. Rawlinson Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, with a fifty-person cast and full band. (2006)