Karl Jenkins

Karl Jenkins is a Welsh composer and musician, famed for such contemporary classics as Adiemus, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace and Palladio. He holds a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Wales, has been made both a Fellow and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where a room has been named in his honour, and has fellowships at Cardiff University, Swansea University, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Trinity College Carmarthen and Swansea Metropolitan University. He was awarded the OBE in 2005, the CBE in 2010, and was knighted in 2015, all for ‘services to music’.

Books by Karl Jenkins