FULL The Music of Karl Jenkins75th Birthday Celebration New York 2019

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Music of Karl Jenkins75th Birthday Celebration  
• Composer: Jenkins Karl  
• Libretto: traditional  
• Venue & Opera Company: Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York City  
• Recorded: January 21, 2019
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Baidar Al Basri, Sara Couden
• Conductor: Jonathan Griffith  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of Distinguished Concerts International  
• Chorus: Distinguished Concerts Singers International  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: DCINY  
• Date Published: 2019  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  PROGRAM LEAFLET

  Karl Jenkins

  Symphonic Adiemus (US Premiere)

  Stabat Mater

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  Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE, FRAM, HonFLSW (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song “Adiemus” (1995, from the Adiemus album series), Palladio (1995), The Armed Man (2000), his Requiem (2005) and his Stabat Mater (2008).

  Jenkins was educated in music at Cardiff University and the Royal Academy of Music, and he is a fellow and an associate of the latter. He joined the jazz-rock band Soft Machine in 1972 and became the group’s lead songwriter in 1974. He continued to work with Soft Machine until 1984, but has not been involved with any incarnation of the group since. He has composed music for advertising campaigns and has won the industry prize twice.

  Works
  Jenkins has created advertising music, twice winning the industry prize in that field. From the 1980s, he developed a relationship with Bartle Bogle Hegarty, starting with composing musics for their Levi’s jeans “Russian” series. He composed a classical theme used by De Beers diamond merchants for their television advertising campaign focusing on jewellery worn by people otherwise seen only in silhouette. Jenkins later included this as the title track in a compilation called Diamond Music, and eventually created Palladio, using it as the theme of the first movement. Other arrangements have included advertisements for the Renault Clio.

  As a composer, his breakthrough came with the crossover project Adiemus. Jenkins has conducted the Adiemus project in Japan, Germany, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as London’s Royal Albert Hall and Battersea Power Station. The Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary (1995) album topped the classical album charts. It spawned a series of successors, each revolving around a central theme. In 2014 Jenkins released a tribute song for the 2014 Winter Olympics, performed by his new age music group also called Adiemus.

  Jenkins was the first international composer and conductor to conduct the University of Johannesburg Kingsway Choir led by Renette Bouwer, during his visit to South Africa as the choir performed his The Armed Man: A mass for peace together with a 70-piece orchestra. In November 2024, the “Benedictus” from the mass was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 programme Soul Music.

  Jenkins’ choral work The Peacemakers was first performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall on 16 January 2012. Jenkins conducted from the podium and John H. Briggs, Sr. conducted the Children’s Chorus from a seated position. The seventeen-movement piece features extracts from religious texts and works by notable humanitarians. A recording was released on 26 March 2012; it features the London Symphony Orchestra and several choirs, as well as guest vocalists and instrumentalists. Additional concerts in the UK and US took place later in the year.

  A work entitled The Healer – A Cantata For St Luke was premiered on 16 October 2014 at St Luke’s Church, Grayshott, Hampshire, and was recorded and broadcast on Classic FM.[16] The Healer received its US premiere at Carnegie Hall, New York on 19 January 2015. In September 2015, the recording of the premiere of The Healer was released on CD by Warner Classics as part of the eight-disc boxed set Voices.

  A compilation CD Still with the Music was also released in September 2015, coinciding with the publication of his autobiography of the same name.[citation needed]

  On 8 October 2016 Jenkins’ choral work Cantata Memoria: For the children, a response to the 1966 Aberfan disaster with a libretto by Mererid Hopwood and commissioned by S4C, premiered at the Wales Millennium Centre. The concert was broadcast the following evening on S4C and was released as an album by Deutsche Grammophon.

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