Jacob Mortensen is a flutist and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn N.Y.  Specializing in contemporary and Historical performance. Professor Mortensen has been featured as a soloist with the New York University Symphony Orchestra, the College of Saint Rose Symphony Orchestra, the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and in various solo and chamber recitals in the NYC area. 

A passion for music history and world music has led him to study many periods and styles of music, most notably period performance on baroque and historical instruments. He is also an avid believer in the modernization of classical music through performance of new and underperformed works from composers outside of the popular canon. His hope is that each student will learn not only the technical aspects of flute playing but also develop an understanding of the history of their instrument as well as a broad knowledge of the music written for it and those flutists who have shaped the way we approach the instrument from a mechanical and virtuosic standpoint. 

Professor Mortensen has served as adjunct faculty at NYU-Steinhardt and adjunct professor of Flute at Molloy College. His primary teachers include such world-renowned flutists as Keith Underwood, Robert Dick, Soo-Kyung Park, and Yvonne Chavez-Hansbrough.