Penny Jenkins

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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 Oxford & Cambridge colleges and places at London’s music colleges. In recent years she has been working as a vocal coach in the world of film & television, notably the Edinburgh Festival & Cannes success: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. She was also seen training the priest to sing in Channel 4’s Priest Idol. She is much in demand as a Festivals Adjudicator.