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Darren W. Jenkins
is an award-winning composer whose compositions have been performed
and recorded both nationally and internationally. His first work for
band, Variations on A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, won the 1989
Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest. With well over 100
works to his credit, Mr. Jenkins has composed and arranged for
symphonic band, jazz band, marching band, orchestra, choir, chamber
ensemble, and solo instruments.
Mr. Jenkins holds
a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Washburn
University in Topeka, Kansas, and a Master of Music degree in
composition from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. He has
studied jazz composition and arranging with Frank Mantooth and did
the majority of his graduate studies in composition with the eminent
and prolific composer James Barnes. Active as a guest conductor,
clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States, Mr. Jenkins
is currently the assistant director of bands at Olathe South High
School in Olathe, Kansas. |
