derekmjenkins

Derek M. Jenkins (b. 1986, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is an American composer and educator.
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His music has been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Canada. Jenkins's piece, "We Seven," won the 2016 American Prize in Composition and in 2012, his piece, "Eosphorus: The Morning Star," was selected as a winner of the National Band Association's Young Composer Mentor Project. Jenkins has received recognition from MMTA/MTNA, MACRO, UMKC, ASCAP, the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, and at conferences and festivals across the U.S. and abroad.

Jenkins serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Arkansas State University and holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (DMA Composition, MM Musicology, 2017; BM Composition, BM Theory, 2010) and Rice University (MM Composition, 2013). Additionally, he received further instruction at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium and the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.

Jenkins is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society; the National Band Association; the College Music Society; Society for American Music; Society of Composers, Inc.; and ASCAP. His music is available through Veritas Musica Publishing and under his own imprint, Mühltal Musikpresse.
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In his spare time, Jenkins is an amateur scuba diver and daydreams of becoming an astronaut. More information can be found at: www.derekmjenkins.com

derekmjenkins’s tracks

• "These Are Enough" for SATB chorus and viola by derekmjenkins
• "Solar Flare" for concert band by derekmjenkins
• "Rock Bottom" for wind ensemble by derekmjenkins
• "Unfinished List of the Things I Love" for mezzo-soprano and piano by derekmjenkins
• Audience Participation [excerpt] by derekmjenkins
• over the tolling of church bells by derekmjenkins
• "Blue Marble: A Symphony for Wind Ensemble" by derekmjenkins
• "We Seven" for brass band by derekmjenkins
• "Kolo" for concert band by derekmjenkins
• "Fountains" for string orchestra by derekmjenkins