Jenny Ohrstrom
Jenny Ohrstrom has been captivating audiences and holding audiences captive since she was first introduced to The Little Mermaid as a kid. She was an avid French Horn player all through middle school and high school, and went on to march Mellophone with the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps after graduating. A chance run-in at college with a friend from high school led to Jenny auditioning for the college’s choir, and she never looked back. It started with choir, but it steadily expanded to a cappella, vocal jazz, opera, backup vocals, and video game samplers. Jenny’s college plans switched from French Horn Performance to Voice Performance, and she went on to get her AA (Mt. San Antonio College), BM (Central Washington University), and MM degrees (CSU Northridge) in Voice Performance.
Singing has taken Jenny to prestigious stages all over North America and Europe, including national and regional ACDA conventions (Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Salt Lake City), Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Benaroya Hall, the Long Center, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Choral Grand Prix competitions (Varna, Bulgaria and Gorizia, Italy), the Operaen in Oslo, Norway, and Schlossbergbühne Kasematten in Graz, Austria.
Before moving back to Texas, Jenny was on the faculty at Cypress College (Cypress, CA), a member of de Angelis Vocal Ensemble and the Charles Dickens Carolers (Los Angeles, CA), and the soprano section leader and soloist at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Morovia, CA).
Jenny is the soprano section leader and a soloist at St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church and maintains a large private voice studio in Austin, Texas. She loves digging deep into vocal music and turning the dots and lines on a sheet of paper into magic. Jenny teaches healthy vocal techniques that free singers to express themselves through music. She’s a firm believer in the healing power of music, and is grateful for all of the friendships made on her musical journey. It’s an honor to teach students to hone their skills, and free them to create their own paths and build relationships through music. You can also catch Jenny performing with Austin Opera, most recently in Everest. Since the pandemic began, her private studio successfully moved online, and she’s been giving a much-needed facelift to www.jennyohrstrom.me. When she’s not singing or hanging out with her family, she enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy novels, and playing video games.