About

Agility, Eloquence, Delight

 

Jeanine Krause brings people together with music for the refreshment of the spirit.

Praised as “delightful and so refreshing” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), she performs on historical oboes and recorders as a soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician around the world.

Performer

Her playing is featured with leading period-instrument ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Musica Angelica, Wiener Akademie, Mercury Baroque, the Bach Ensemble, Main-Barock-Orchester and Boston Early Music Festival. She has participated in the landmark BachVesper Franfurt-Wiesbaden from 2004 until 2025, having performed over 200 cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. She makes appearances as a soloist including with L’Arpa Festante (Munich), Dallas Bach Society and the American Baroque Opera Company.

Teacher

A passionate educator, Jeanine’s JK Studio offers in-person and online master’s-level training in historical oboe. JK Studio is also the host of the International Baroque Academy in Hessen, Germany, a 5-day annual in-person Fall intensive established in 2020. She frequently serves as guest teacher and clinician for example in such institutions as University of North Texas, Sarah Lawrence College, Kansas University, University of Nebraska- Lincoln and the International Double Reed Society.

Artistic Director

Jeanine is a founding member of The Sprightly Companions, a chamber ensemble dedicated to expressive, conversational music of the 18th century, currently recording a trilogy of albums (Fresh Facets: Baroque Trio Sonatas, Bach Chorales and More,  Trio Sonatas of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre.) In 2019, she launched the European division of Symphonie des Dragons, an oboe band modeled after Versailles’ famed Douze Grands Hautbois, also releasing an album of works from the 1705 Philidor Collection and Suite from Jacquet de La Guerre’s only surviving opera, Cephale et Procris.

Community Leader

A committed community builder, Jeanine co-founded the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) Baroque Band alongside Geoffrey Burgess in 2022. This ensemble welcomes historical oboists of all levels to rehearse and perform ceremonially at IDRS conferences worldwide, including appearances in Boulder, CO,  Bangkok, Thailand (where Jeanine was also music director) and Flagstaff, AR.

Service, Advisory and Volunteer

After completing a term as secretary on the IDRS Executive Board, Jeanine now serves as chair for the newly formed IDRS Historical Performance Committee. Jeanine further volunteers her time and creativity to Lutheran Summer Music (LSM), where she sponsors the oboe studio and serves on the Advisory Council and Campaign Leadership Team. LSM is a month-long emersion experience for high school musicians of which Jeanine is also an alum, having sung in the choir under Craig Hella Johnson and performed in the orchestra under Steve Amundson.

Training

Jeanine graduated from Martin High School in Arlington and performed with the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra and the Texas All-State Symphony under Benjamin Zander. She studied modern oboe at St. Olaf College in Minnesota with Rhadamas Angelucci and Merilee Klemp and at the University of Nebraska with William McMullen. She did further studies in musicology in Mainz, Germany at Gutenberg Universität, Baroque Oboe at Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium with Matthew Peaceman and pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts in Historical Performance at Boston University with Marc Schachman, Joshua Rifkin, Martin Pearlman and Peter Sykes.

Born in the USA, Jeanine dances Argentine Tango in her free time and lives most months of the year in Germany with her teenage son and a boa named Tiny. Jeanine also lives in Dallas-Ft. Worth for performing and teaching and to be with family and her amazing finance, Dr. Aspaas, Director of Choral Studies at TCU.