Katie Jenkins
Grand Prize
Katie Jenkins is a multi award-winning Welsh composer/producer now based in New York City. Her music can be identified by its unique way of weaving together tapestries of sounds and layering textures with a touch of Celtic flair as she draws on her Welsh roots. Jenkins engages in projects that encompass many forms of music making from the concert hall, to multimedia environments, to dance and film. She thrives off collaboration and enjoys including musicians closely in her creative process. She is an active recording artist and features regularly as vocalist and violinist on her own tracks. Katie’s music has been performed across Europe and the US, including performances at National Sawdust where she held a fellowship, The Juilliard School, The Curtis Institute of Music, BBC Hoddinott Hall and music festivals in Bulgaria and The Academy of Music, Serbia. Katie is a 2021, Artist in Residence with the Dordor Gallery, Brooklyn. Her work featured in Vogue Italia, March 2021 Edition.
Her multimedia collaborations have resulted in boundary pushing theatrical projects that include collaborating with numerous directors across the US and Europe including BBC Wildlife film-maker Nick Jones. Her online docu-opera commission lead to a premier with Opera Vision during the Summer of 2020. Jenkins’ latest film score in collaboration with production company, Paper Rose, was given an honourable mention in the Berlin Film Festival and reached the semi-finals of the New York International Film Festival. As a mix engineer, Jenkins’ latest project included working on a global initiative run by The Female Quotient in collaboration with composer and multi-instrumentalist Shelbie Rassler, creating music for the world’s largest virtual dinner party of 150,000 women! Jenkins also enjoys conducting and made her debut in Hoddinott Hall, UK, where she conducted her own orchestral overture. As an arranger, Jenkins was recently hired to arrange music for the UN Chamber Music Society Concert.
Jenkins works with some of the best musicians in the world. She has written for award winning soloists such as pianist Umi Garret, violinist Nathan Meltzer and most recently a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. Her work, Radiate for Solo Trumpet and Piano (recorded by Robert Garrison and Umi Garret at Skillman Studio Brookyln) was awarded the Grand Prize in the International Women’s Brass Festival, WCFT Competition in 2020. Listen to the work here. Jenkins also had success at the Uljus VIII International Composition Competition, Serbia where she won first prize in 2020 and 2021 for ‘Toccata for Solo Piano’ (Umi Garret) and ‘Monologue for Solo Vocalizing Cellist’ (premiered by Juliet Wolff). Katie is this years winner of the Brian Israel/Sam Pellman Award (NY Federation of Music Clubs Israel Prize) from the Society of New Music in NYC.
As an educator, Jenkins is a Teaching Fellow at the Juilliard School where she coaches composition for media and music production. She is also a composition/music production/ violin teacher at Music to Your Home.
Katie is an established producer and regularly works as a sound engineer for a diverse range of musicians including, jazz, pop and classical genres. She also has an established team of collaborators ready to assist with commissions. This includes established audio engineers, specialists in MIDI mock-ups and score making assistants. She also has a large network of studio musicians on hand for larger projects. Her music can be found in libraries that include Crime Sonics and MPATH but tracks can be synched with productions by request from her personal library.
At the Juilliard School, Katie was the last student of renowned composer, Christopher Rouse. She then worked with Matthias Pintscher, conductor of the Ensemble Intercomporain and is currently working with Pulitzer prize winning composer Melinda Wagner. She holds the Henry Mancini Fellowship at The Juilliard School.
Katie’s winning submission: “Monologue for Solo Vocalizing Cellist”
You can learn more about Katie at www.katiejenkinscomposer.com. Katie is currently accepting project proposals and commissions in collaboration with Shelbie Rassler as they prepare for the launch of a new music production company. You can submit a proposal or commission request here. Additionally, Katie offers private lessons and has openings in her studio. Sign up for lessons at: www.katiejenkinscomposer.com/about.