Sir Karl Jenkins CBE Becomes LMF Ambassador

We are delighted to announce that Sir Karl Jenkins CBE has become a LMF Ambassador.

Sir Karl Jenkins CBE is, globally, among the most performed living composers. In 2023 his music was played at the Coronation of King Charles III, and in the same year The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace gained the unique status of having achieved '1000 Weeks' in the UK Classical chart and was selected to represent the decade 2000-2009 in BBC Radio 3’s Soundscape of a Century. In 2025 The Armed Man reached no. 2 in the Classic FM 'Hall of Fame' poll of the UK’s favourite classical music works, the highest-ever for a living composer.

Karl Jenkins read music at Cardiff University and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Resisting categorization, his style and integrity have transcended musical boundaries: jazz at Ronnie Scott’s Club; first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Nucleus, jazz fusion with Soft Machine, award-winning advert soundtracks (Levis, British Airways, Audi); scoring a Kiefer Sutherland movie; the Freedom of the City of London, BBC Desert Island Discs, ITV South Bank Show and, in the distant past, recording sessions with many: Elton John, George Harrison, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Together with his global ‘cross-genre’ phenomenon Adiemus (1995), his best-known work is The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (2000), which has received 3000 performances around the globe since its millennium premiere.