Incorporating Summer Music"Hitting all the right notes" "There is not any music of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voices of men". "Since singing is so good a thing I wish all men would learn to sing" William Byrd 1588 |
Penny Jenkins has performed opera and oratorio throughout Europe, has broadcast for the BBC and recorded solos with the Oriana Consort, the Brighton Chamber Choir and the Neil Jenkins Chorale. She now concentrates on teaching singing to people of all ages and abilities, and loves her classes for adult singers (such as the ones at “Jackdaws”) called
Discover Your Voice
, as well as her work with juniors called
Ready, Steady, Sing!
She has twice been Musician in Residence for the
Jackdaws Educational Trust
in Somerset, working with primary and secondary school children on large-scale choral works.
For ten years she was a tutor at Summer Music, where she got to know Steven Rickards. She is now co-director, with him, of the Vocal Arts Institute at the University of Indianapolis. She has successfully trained pupils for Choral Scholarships at Cambridge University and places at London music colleges. In recent years she has been working as a vocal coach in the world of film and television, notably the Edinburgh Festival & Cannes success: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael . In 2005 she was seen training the priest in Channel 4’s documentary Priest Idol.
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