Linking Legacies: A Community Conversation and Concert with Chris Jenkins

Linking Legacies

A Joint Community Conversation and Kleshinski Concert with violist, Chris Jenkins and colleagues

Chris Jenkins, Associate Dean for Academic Support at Oberlin Conservatory, is an educator, administrator, and performing violist. At Oberlin, he is a Deputy Title IX Coordinator and Conservatory Liaison to the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as well as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology.

His international engagement has included performances and teaching in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Israel, China, Colombia, and South Africa, including a performance with the Jordan National Symphony at the World Heritage Site of Petra in 2016. In the summer of 2017, he served as a guest artist and teacher at the Afghan National Institute of Music in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is currently earning a DMA in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a PhD in Historical Musicology from Case Western Reserve, where his work focuses on the music of African-American composers. His alma maters include Harvard University, New England Conservatory, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Jenkins will present on his new book Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education in a community conversation, followed by a Kleshinski concert with Chris Jenkins, viola, Dianna White-Gould, piano, and Anastasia “Ana” Rainbow, soprano.

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This Community Conversation will be held in person and virtually over Zoom. Details will be sent to all Eventbrite RSVPs.

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