Musical Director

Jamie Powe conductor

Jamie was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he achieved a distinction in his choral conducting MA. He was also awarded the Thomas Armstrong prize for outstanding choral leadership. Jamie was one of the 2018/19 Young Conducting Scholars with Sing for Pleasure and has worked with Genesis Sixteen as conducting scholar, and he is currently Musical Director of Laurelin Voices, The Fourth Choir, The New London Singers, Putney Choral Society and The Aubrey Singers. He was Director of The Arcadian Singers 2019-23, the Chapel Choir of Regent’s Park College, Oxford 2019-2021, and was also Associate Director of Ware Choral Society 2022-23 In 2022, he conducted at the RBL Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in front of the royal family and on prime time BBC 1.

He completed his BA degree in Music at Somerville College. Alongside his degree, he also studied choral conducting with Paul Spicer and directed the Somerville Orchestra. Jamie studied composition at Oxford with Toby Young and Deborah Pritchard, achieving a first class grade for his composition portfolio. He continued his studies at The Royal Academy of Music with David Gorton and Gareth Moorcraft, alongside his choral conducting MA. His latest commission, The Gun Mass was performed both in the US and UK in April 2023, and recorded in Oxford. He is currently one of the 2024/25 National Youth Choir Young Composers.

As a tenor, Jamie was a choral scholar at Somerville College (2015-2018), St Mary’s Church, Primrose Hill (2018-20). He has also performed operatic roles with Handmade Opera, Opera in the City and has performed at the Dorset Opera Festival. Roles include Flute (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Daniel (Witch – a new opera by Toby Young), Trio (Trouble in Tahiti) and Bill (A Hand of Bridge).

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