Karl Jenkins

Karl Jenkins (né Karl William Pamp Jenkins, 17 Février 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer. His most famous works include "Adiemus", "The Armed Man", "The Peacemakers" et "Requiem". His 2016 work, "Cantata Memoria: For the children", commemorated the tragic loss in the 1966 Aberfan cas de catastrophe. With a livret by Mererid Hopwood and commissioned by S4C, premiered at the Millennium Centre, à Cardiff. Jenkins was born and raised in Penclawdd, on the Gower penisula dans Glamorgan, au pays de Galles. His mother was Swedish and his father ce que Welsh. Jenkins received his initial musical instruction from his father who was the local le schoolteacher, chapel organiste and choirmaster. He attended Gowerton Grammar School and began his musical career as à hautboïste dans the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He went on to study music at Université de Cardiff, and then commenced postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music de Londres, en Angleterre, where he also met his wife and musical du rcm, Carol Barratt. For the bulk of his early career Jenkins ce known as a jazz et jazz-rock musician, playing baritone and soprano saxophones, claviers and hautbois, à unusual instrument a jazz context. He joined jazz composer Graham Collier's group and later co-founded the jazz-rock group Nucleus, which won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival en 1970. En 1972, he joined the rock progressif bande de Soft Machine until their very last performances en 1984.