Chris Jenkins

Associate Dean and Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology Christopher Jenkins will give a preconcert lecture on March 28 for the Cleveland Orchestra's "Black Panther In Concert," for which TCO performs the score of Black Panther alongside a screening of the movie.

Associate Dean and Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology Christopher Jenkins will host two webinars about diversifying music curricula, through the College Music Society on March 18 and through New England Conservatory's alumni office on March 19.

Through the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity, Associate Dean for Academic Support, Chris Jenkins published a blog post titled “Radically Transforming Classical Music” on Medium, part of a larger set of works focused on exploration across musical genres. For the American Viola Society, he released a recording of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms on solo viola, available on YouTube and Spotify.

Conservatory Associate Dean Chris Jenkins’ first book, Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education, was published in late July by Routledge and the College Music Society. In it, he writes about issues of diversity in classical music education.

Christ Jenkins, conservatory associate dean for academic support, published an article on African American violists from the 20th century in the fall 2020 volume of the Journal of the American Viola Society.

Chris Jenkins, associate dean for academic support, wrote the piece “Race and Racialized Aesthetics in Conservatory Education,” which was featured in Spark, the online magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity.