Gabriel Jenks

Hailed by The New York Times as “striking and resourceful…handsomely brooding,” Gabriel Jenks (formerly Han/Hannah Lash) has had work performed at such major venues as Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, the Times Center in Manhattan, the Chicago Art Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, The Aspen Music Festival & School, among others. Jenks’ chamber opera, Desire, premiered at Miller Theatre to great acclaim. Jenks’ Double Concerto for piano and harp was premiered by the Naples Philharmonic, and Forestallings, a musical response to Beethoven’s Symphony No.2 in D Major, was premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Jenks’ double harp concerto,The Peril of Dreams, was premiered by the Seattle Symphony in November 2021 with the composer as one of the featured soloists, and in May 2025, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) premiered his concerto for orchestra, Zero Turning Radius, at Jordan Hall.

More recently, Jenks has taken up both the mandolin and the banjo, writing a concerto for each. The concerto for mandolin and chamber ensemble, On the Run, was premiered at Indiana University in February of 2026 and subsequently went on tour in Seoul, South Korea. The concerto for banjo and orchestra, titled As Luck, premiered during the summer of 2026 at the Most Arts Festival at Alfred University. Both pieces featured Jenks as the soloist.

Gabriel Jenks is Associate Professor of Music (Composition) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Jenks’ music is published exclusively by Schott Music Corporation, New York.