The life and music of Edmund Thornton Jenkins

Tuffus Zimbabwe, presenter

This presentation focuses on the life and compositions of Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926), an internationally acclaimed composer from South Carolina who worked primarily in London and Paris. Led by Jenkins’s great-nephew, renowned musician Tuffus Zimbabwe, this session will feature live and recorded performances of Jenkins’s works, provide historical contextualization of Jenkins and his family, and discuss contemporary efforts to program and research Jenkins.