Dr Lucien Jenkins

Biography

Lucien Jenkins studied at Cambridge University and London University. Before teaching at the Guildhall School, he taught courses for the London Interfaith Centre, Bristol University and Dillington House, and was an A-level examiner for OCR.  

Lucien is the author of Discover Early Music and Saints and Sinners (Naxos), Romanticism in Focus and Modernism in Focus (Rhinegold), and Laying out the Body (Seren). He is the editor of George Eliot's Collected Poems, Peter Teuthold's The Necromancer, Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell (Skoob), Dictionary of Music in Sound (Rhinegold), Musical Instrument Handbook (Flametree/Billboard). He was a contributor to and a consultant for Stanley Sadie’s Classical Music Encyclopedia (Collins) and Musical Instruments (Collins Gem).   

Lucien was a consultant for the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, and a member of the governing body of the Poetry Society and the advisory panel of the British Federation of Young Choirs.  

He created the Rhinegold Study Guides series for KS3, GCSE and A level (Music Sales). He edited Music Teacher and Early Music Today, and created Classroom Music and Teaching Drama. Lucien has written for The Guardian, Classical Music, Opera Now, Piano, Poetry Review, The Singer and History Today.   

He is a freelance development editor with Cambridge University Press.