Edmund's Academy, and by composing works for the orchestra at The Ellis School, both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to his university teaching, Jenkins influenced students at the primary and secondary school levels as the organist and instrumental music teacher (orchestra director) at St. He was subsequently drafted into the Army and assigned to serve at Fort George G. Jenkins graduated from Eastman with a Masters of Music in 1951, in the middle of the Korean War.
While there, he studied under important composers including Thomas Canning, Howard Barlow, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson. Joseph's in three years and enrolled in the Eastman School of Music in 1949. At the same time, he studied composition and counterpoint with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory (which became part of the University of the Arts in 1962). Joseph's College) in Philadelphia, where he focused on pre-law with the ambition of becoming a lawyer.
In 1946, Jenkins began his tertiary studies at Saint Joseph's University (then St. In high school, he wrote numerous arrangements as well as some original works for orchestra. By the age of six, Jenkins had already begun piano lessons soon afterward, he started composing small pieces in elementary school.
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