““Loosely themed as “winter lights”, the concert featured the BBCCO’s former composer-in-residence, its present one and the winner of the BBC Proms Inspire competition for young composers - all three of them women. And it was the competition winner, 20-year-old Sarah Jenkins, still studying the clarinet in Cardiff, who produced the most enchanting piece.

Its title, ‘And the Sun Stood Still’, refers to the winter solstice and the primordial spirits allegedly released on that shortest day. Jenkins depicts those with unearthly howls in the middle of the piece, but equally striking is her immaculate use of a warm, varied orchestral palette. A little more memorability in the thematic material and she will be a name to watch”.

Richard Morrison, The Times, December 7th, 2018”

“Winner of BBC Young Composer, Sarah Jenkins has been maing quite a name for herself. Heralding from Oxford, this clarinettist and composer got the opportunity for musicians of our Royal Welsh to give some of her work a go. Her winter solstice inspired piece And the Sun Stood Still made for a fine opening to this concert. At times conjuring up sounds of Ravel and Debussy, this finely orchestrated work had exquisite timbres for its brief duration, harp and piano in harmony a highlight, luminous strings another

James Ellis, Arts Scene Wales, October 26th, 2019”