Cellist Clarice Jensen favours experimental contemporary classical pieces grounded in compositional austerity. On solo work such as 2020’s The experience of repetition as death and the 2021 film score for Identifying Features, the Brooklyn musician crafts gouging, emotionally resonant drones created via loops and electronic effects. Jensen honed her skills first at the Juilliard School, from which she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She made a name for herself through collaborations with the celebrated chamber group yMusic and mainstream rock and pop musicians, including Paul McCartney, Björk and the orchestral indie troupe Dirty Projectors. Jensen has also served as the artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, a role that has given her the chance to program works by Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Outside of this work, she has continued to shape her innovative approach into more accessible pop forms, contributing cello to Taylor Swift’s folk-leaning evermore, Michael Stipe’s haunting Big Red Machine collaboration “No Time For Love Like Now” and the Dear Evan Hansen film soundtrack.