Jennifer Torrence is a percussionist/performer working internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative artist, improviser, composer, and artistic researcher. She is a member of the experimental percussion trio Pinquins. Much of her artistic practice over the last decades has been built upon deep collaborative processes with composers and other artists, resulting in a body of work that, in various ways, stretches the roles of the performer/percussionist.
She is Associate Professor of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music and a percussion tutor at Darmstadt Summer Course. Active in the field of Artistic Research she regularly supervises and assesses PhD candidates working in composition and performance both at NMH and international institutions. From 2026-2030 she will conduct post-doctoral research at NMH with the project, "From the Collective".
Jennifer is a former principal percussionist of the Arctic Philharmonic (2011-2015), former artistic research fellow (PhD) at the Norwegian Academy of Music with the project Percussion Theatre: a body in between (2015-2018), former curator at nyMusikk (2023-2024), former Fulbright scholar (UK 2009-2010).
Originally from the US, she studied at Oberlin Conservatory (with Mike Rosen), the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (with Richard Benjafield), and University of California San
