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ALBUMThe Very Best Of Karl Jenkins (80th Birthday Edition)Karl Jenkins
Albums by Karl Jenkins
ALBUMKarl Jenkins: The Armed Man (Ensemble Version)Hertfordshire Chorus, David Temple & London Orchestra da Camera
ALBUMClassical Reimagined, Vol. 1Jennifer Thomas
ALBUMInstrumental Motivation Boost SoundtracksVarious Artists
ALBUMTexas Music Educators Association Region 31 High School Choirs 2021Texas Music Educators Association Region 31 High School Honor Choir, Texas Music Educators Association Region 31 High School Treble Choir & Texas Music Educators Association Region 31 High School Mixed Choir
ALBUMElgar - Britten - Warlock - Jenkins: Very BritishMetamorphosen Berlin & Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
ALBUMMay the road... (...rise to meet you - 25 Jahre Junge Kantorei St. Maria Kaiserslautern)Junge Kantorei St. Maria, Tobias Naumann, Maximilian Rajczyk, Anna Maria Gruszczynska, Katharina Petry, Antonietta Jana & Frank Claus
ALBUMAlrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet ConcertosEvelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel
ALBUMAlone, Together - from Arena Pula (Visual Album)HAUSER & London Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMMiserere: Songs of Mercy and RedemptionKarl Jenkins
ALBUMKarl Jenkins: PianoKarl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins's Popular Music Videos
Benedictus (From The Armed Man) [Arr. for Cello, Choir, & Orchestra]
HAUSER & Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Jenkins: White Water
Karl Jenkins
XII. Benedictus (Piano Version)
Karl Jenkins
Tikkun Olam (Repair the World) [Instrumental]
Karl Jenkins, Krzysztof Wisniewski, Valentino Worlitzsch & World Orchestra for Peace
Sakura, Spring Has Come
Karl Jenkins, Lucy Crowe, World Orchestra for Peace, World Choir for Peace, Nicol Matt, Krzysztof Wisniewski, Alexander Duggan & Jody Jenkins
Adiemus
Karl Jenkins
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Artist Biography
The extraordinarily diverse output of composer Karl Jenkins has encompassed genres as numerous as jazz, rock, film music, advertising music, New Age music, and classical composition, largely choral. He is perhaps best known for the song Adiemus, for a series of classical or New Age works derived from it, and for the widely performed mass setting The Armed Man. In the '80s and '90s, Jenkins enjoyed a successful career as a composer of music for advertising. Just as successful has been The Armed Man (1999), a setting of the Catholic mass incorporating the medieval song The Armed Man (L'homme armé) along with other texts and musical materials. The giant choral work The Peacemakers (2014) included a 1,000-voice choir called The Really Big Chorus on its 2012 debut recording. Jenkins returned in 2023 with the album One World, commissioned by World Choir for Peace director Nicol Matt.
Hometown
Penclawdd, Gower, Wales
Genre
Classical