2019 IPPEC Examiner

Dr. Emily Trapp Jenkins

Arkansas State University
　

Emily Trapp Jenkins is currently serving as one of the Collaborative Pianists at Arkansas State University, where she works closely with the vocal department and regularly accompanies the theater/opera productions. She holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance .

 Jenkins has previously served as the Pre-Collegiate Competitions Chair for the Missouri Music Teachers National Association and worked as a Keyboard Skills Division Graduate Assistant at UMKC, where she taught in both group and private lesson settings. Notable accolades include first prize in the Missouri Music Teachers Association's Collegiate (Graduate) Honors Auditions held at the University of Missouri-Columbia in November 2014. She was a participant in the Schlern International Music Festival (Völs am Schlern, Italy, 2013) and was selected as a soloist in Goshen College’s Concerto/Aria Competition, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major in February 2011. 

 Recent collaborations have included new commissioned works for oboe/soprano with Dr. Kristin Leitterman performed at University of Southern Mississippi on October 28, 2018; a Southeastern regional tour with Arkansas State University's voice faculty, Matthew Carey, or Franz Schubert’s Winterreise beginning in February 2019; and a collaborative piano recital to be performed during the 2019-2020 academic year with her colleagues at Arkansas State University.