Jens Lovtang

Hello - welcome to Lovtang Music.com!  Lovtang Music, LLC was incorporated in June 2020 to produce music and audio for myself and for a variety of clients. 

 

Recent Projects:  

• For Oregon State University:

  • OSU Choral Program: arranging, recording, and producing music - I  will be producing the OSU Spring President's Concert,  premiering on June 3, 2021. 

    • ​Link:  OSU Meistersingers perform "Soon Will The Wellerman Come"

  • I serve as the TA for MUS 442:  History of Blues and African-American Music

  • I host a Tuesday evening song writing group called "Songwriters in the Round".

• Personal Projects

  • Natural Photography / Soundscapes​

  • Landscape Painting

 

BIO:

Born halfway between Woodstock and Altamont, and raised halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, Jens Lovtang has been a multi-instrumentalist and singer for over 40 years, and a music teacher for over a decade.

 

Jens earned an MS in Fisheries Biology from Oregon State University in 2005, and worked for nearly 20 years as a fisheries scientist, including over a decade with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs,   He taught community guitar classes part-time for the Central Oregon Community College In Redmond, Oregon from 2012-2016, while working full-time for Warm Springs.

 

Then, at the age of 46,  Jens switched careers and became a full-time band teacher at the Redmond Proficiency Academy for the 2016-17 school year. 

 

in the fall of 2017, Lovtang returned to school at Oregon State University to study music education, where he was Student Assistant Conductor of the Meistersingers Men's Chorus, Student President  of the Chamber Choir, played bass in the jazz combo, taught classes in contemporary guitar and songwriting, and even sang a role in the Italian opera "La Rondine".    He earned his B.S. in Music in 2019 and his Master of Arts in Teaching Music in  2020. 

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Jens teaches and creates his music and art in Corvallis, Oregon.