Jenkinson composer biography

Contacts draw the attention of Mail mail owners. The internal calendar Mail does not correctly display the start time of the event. Actual information is contained on the ticket or on the organizer’s website. On this page you can see the poster of the upcoming concerts in Karl Jenkins was born on February 17, Father Karl Jenkins, who was an organist and chormaster, gave his son an initial musical education.

Jenkins studied at the Gauerton school. Jenkins began his musical career as a Goboist in the National Youth Orchestra Wales, then studied music at the University of Cardiff, and then in graduate school in London, at the Royal Academy of Music. At the beginning of his career, Jenkins was known as a jazz and jazz-rok musician playing on the sagsophone of baritone and soprano, keyboards and Goboy, and later became one of the founders of the Jazz-Rock group of Nucleus.

Jenkins was engaged in the Nucleus repertoire up to a year, writing music for the first three albums of the group that were recorded in less than a year, and received the first prize with them on Montreux Jazz Festival. All this time, Karl also vividly performed on the side as part of various jazz groups. In the year, Karo became one of the leaders in Soft Machine.

A talented composer and a skilled arranger, Jenkins quickly enriched the stylistic sound of the group and single -handedly stood up by the helm when the jazz finally bored Ratlede in the year. Karl worked with this group up to a year and fully composed five albums. Under his influence, Soft Machine ceased to simply improvise on well -known jazz topics, their sound acquired a more academic and classic ornament, and from jazz gradually moved to one of the fatal forms of instrumental music.

At the end of 80 -Karl Jenkins, he began to test his long -standing ideas to compose music for string orchestras with percussion and ethnic vocals. After that, a significant breakthrough of Karl as a composer occurred. Jenkins performed this project in Japan, Germany, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as in London Albert Hall and the Battersei power plant.

In the year, Jenkins became an officer of the excellent order of the British Empire, and in the year - the commander of this order. In June, he was dedicated to the Queen’s knight in the Bakalavra title [10] for writing music and the intersection of musical genres of the Afisha concerts with the music of Karl Jenkins in Moscow Concert “Concerts of Candlers.

From Baroque to Rock ”from the Belcanto Foundation will be held on April 19 in Moscow.