Conductor
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Jamie has conducted a wide variety of ensembles from symphony and studio orchestras to contemporary chamber groups and children’s choirs.
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He was the Children’s Chorusmaster for the Santa Fe Opera for many years, and the founding conductor of the Desert Chorale Children’s Chorus and the Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble.
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He was also the founding conductor of the Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra in Texas and has conducted many side-by-side performances with students and professionals. From 2007 to 2019 Jamie conducted the annual Music Memory concert and competition, which involved the participation of thousands of elementary students each year, and featured performances by members of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He has also served as the Music Director for dozens of musical theater productions.
Conductor
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Jamie has conducted a wide variety of ensembles from symphony and studio orchestras to contemporary chamber groups and children’s choirs.
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He was the Children’s Chorusmaster for the Santa Fe Opera for many years, and the founding conductor of the Desert Chorale Children’s Chorus and the Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble.
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He was also the founding conductor of the Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra in Texas and has conducted many side-by-side performances with students and professionals. From 2007 to 2019 Jamie conducted the annual Music Memory concert and competition, which involved the participation of thousands of elementary students each year, and featured performances by members of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He has also served as the Music Director for dozens of musical theater productions.
Nightingale Concerto
Stanza 2: Sunburnt Mirth
Stanza 4: Wings of Poesy
Stanza 7: In Fairy Lands Forlorn
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"Jamie is a thoughtful composer, with a sensitivity for color and form. His Nightingale Concerto for recorder, strings and percussion is full of atmosphere, as well as humor. It’s a welcome addition to the recorder repertoire."
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– Yaniv Dinur
Music Director, New Bedford Symphony Orchestra &
Resident Conductor, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
"It was a great honor to play the piece Jamie wrote for me. You can tell he plays and understands the recorder very well, because his piece felt very idiomatic. I really loved his sense of line and color. Jamie showcased my instrument without asking it to do something it couldn’t do. Thank you, Jamie!"
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– Héloïse Degrugillier
Recorder Virtuoso & Music Director, Boston Recorder Society
