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Karl Jenkins: Musical Tourist Comes Home

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He’s spent a lifetime mixing musical styles but, as he prepares for his latest Welsh premiere, composer – and self-proclaimed “musical tourist” – Karl Jenkins tells Gavin Allen that he’s finally arrived at his musical destination

THE journey to become the UK’s best-selling modern classical composer has taken Karl Jenkins on some jazzy detours, but classical music has always been his point of departure and arrival.

As he prepares for the Welsh premiere of Stabat Mater, Jenkins says he is now confident that his work is hallmarked with the unique seal he has been seeking in a career that has assimilated multitudinous ethnic influences to his knowledge and experience of jazz, classical and rock music.

“I have gone through a process of being a musical tourist and as a result of that I have developed a style that works for me, taking various things from different cultures,” says the composer.

He admits he will never return to jazz composition because: “I have found out what I am best at now”.

It wasn’t always so. In fact, it wasn’t until the period between his breakthrough with Adiemus in 1995 and his transition to The Armed Man in 2000, that Jenkins says he felt he had truly begun to find his feet with modern classical composition despite his myriad qualifications.

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