John Christensen began his bass studies with Chris Wood and continued his formal education by attending Berklee College of Music summer sessions and finally attending University of North Texas music program. After deciding on a more personalized education program John moved to San Francisco to begin gigging and study with renowned educator Dick Hindman. In the Bay Area John played and recorded with numerous bands including his own band Dam East, Mark Levine, Victoria Williams, Slide Five, Scott Amendola, Hal Stein, and The New Morty Show among others. Since Moving to Madison in 1999 John has played with numerous local groups including Alison Margaret, Jan Wheaton, Harmonious Wail, Patrick Breiner, Dave Stoler, Kyle Henderson, Paul Hastil, Anders Svanoe and Gerri DeMaggio. John continues learning and growing in 2018 through Recording and performing collaborations with Louka Patenaude, Anthony Deutsch, Jamie Breiwick, Devin Drobka, Tony Barba and has shared the stage with such luminaries as Maria Schnieder, Brian Lynch, Gilad Hekselman, Miguel Zenon and Russ Johnson. John's Atlas project with Johannes Wallmann, Dave Miller and Andrew Green is scheduled to release an album on Shifting Paradigm Records iin June 2018.