8. “Lusinghe più care” from Alessandro, HWV 21
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 


-Lusinghe piu care- from Alessandro, HWV 21 (Handel) - Amanda Jens.aac

6. Als die alte Mutter, Op. 55, No. 4	
Antonín Dvořák	(1841-1904)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

Als die alte Mutter, Op. 55, No. 4 (Antonin Dvorak) - Amanda Jens.aac

11. “Thy hand, Belinda… 	When I am laid in earth”	    	    from Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626	
Henry Purcell  (1659-1695)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

-Thy hand, Belinda... When I am laid in earth- from Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (Purcell) - Amanda Jens.

1. Ici-Bas!, Op.8 No.3 				   Gabriel Fauré
                                                (1845-1924)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

Ici-Bas!, Op. 8 No. 3 (Faure) - Amanda Jens.aac

3. En Sourdine, Op.58 No.2
 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

En Sourdine, Op. 58 No. 2 (Faure) - Amanda Jens.aac

2. Chanson d’amour, Op.27 No.1  
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

Chanson d'amour, Op. 27 No. 1 (Faure) - Amanda Jens.aac

9. Vittoria, mio core! 			 Giacomo Carissimi	
                                        (1605-1674)   

Knox College Department Of Music
Undergraduate Senior Voice Recital
Amanda Fair Jens, soprano
student of Lucas Wood
Polly Brecht, piano
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Kresge Recital Hall 

Amanda Jens - Vittoria, mio core.aac

Knox College, General Student Recital, May 20, 2022, Kresge Recital Hall

Clear, Shining Moment (Martha Hill Duncan).wav

Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fu- from Serse, HWV 40 (Handel) 

Amanda Jens, soprano
Denise Whittington, piano
Audition recording July 29, 2025

07.29.25.Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fu- from Serse, HWV 40 (Handel).wav

O Ma Lyre Immortelle - from Sapho (Charles Gounod)

Amanda Jens, soprano
Denise Whittington, piano
Audition recording July 29, 2025

07.29.25.O Ma Lyre Immortelle- from Sapho (Charles Gounod).wav

Soprano | Actor | Arts Advocate
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Knox College BA '24
Double Major - Theatre and Music 

SAI - Sigma Alpha Iota - Psi Chapter Alumna

Member of Musicians Club of Women, Chicago

Awards:
2024 International Clara Schumann Competition : Fourth Prize - Voice Professional Category, Juried

Winner of The Colton Prize for Excellence In Theatre Performance (Harbach Mainstage) :

for Ruth in Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" - First Place, 2002

for Josie in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon For The Misbegotten," - First Place, 2003

for Hecuba in Euripides' "The Trojan Women" - Runner Up, 2004

Other stage credits include:

Lady Croom in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia"

Emilia in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"

Nina in Christopher Durang's "Nina In The Morning" / "Durang, Durang"

Sylvia Balton in Jon Robin Baitz' "The Film Society"

Vi in Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water"

Grace in William Inge's "Bus Stop"

Reba Freitag in Alfred Uhry's "The Last Night of Ballyhoo"

Margaret in Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo"

Constance in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Sorcerer"

Ensign Dinah Murphy in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific"

Ensemble member in "Give My Regards to Broadway: A Musical Revue"

Reconciliation in Aristophenes' "Lysistrata"

Jocasta in a staged reading of Tim J. Lord's "We Will Never Reach the Shore" adapted from Euripides' "The Phoenician Women" 


-Lusinghe piu care- from Alessandro, HWV 21 (Handel) - Amanda Jens.aac

Amanda Fair Jens (she / her)