Darren W. Jenkins

Darren W. Jenkins is an award-winning composer whose compositions have been performed and recorded by various groups across the country, as well as 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 hundreds of works to his credit, he has composed/arranged for symphonic, marching, and jazz bands; orchestra, choir, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments. Several of Jenkins’ compositions have been published, featured with FJH Music Publications, Walrus Music Publications, TRN Publications, Southern Music Company, Alfred Publications, and most notably with Wingert-Jones Publications. His most prominent recordings are of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble by soloist Jeanette Balland and The Danish Concert Band (“Visions from the North”, Rondo records) and Delaware Valley Celebration, by The Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on their “New Wind Repertoire 2000” compact disc. Several of Jenkins’ jazz compositions/arrangements are featured on the Topeka Jazz Workshop CD The Primrose Path, as well as the CD entitled The Simple Things In Life, recorded by the Washburn University Jazz Ensemble I. He has a biographical inclusion with The Wind Repertory Project, as well as the recently revised volume of The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music.