麻豆社

School of Music

Jamie Clark

Jamie Clark, D.M.A.
Instructor
Cello
Email: J-Clark7@wiu.edu

Cellist Jamie Clark of Boulder, Colorado has been praised for her sensitive, imaginative, and colorful sense of artistry. She has concertized throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Eastman's Kodak Hall, New York City's American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Jamie is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, a non- profit organization based in Colorado. The festival strives to cross cultural, geographic, and temporal divides between performers, composers, and audience members, inspiring dynamic interaction within the entire Festival community.

Her commitment to community engagement has led to collaborations with the Music For Food initiative in Orlando, Deland, Boston, Denver, and Boulder. She also has served as a core artist for Open Scene, a vibrant orlando-based non-profit organization led by professional Latina women, championing multiculturalism and inclusion through artistic and humanistic programs. She is a founding member of the Parrish Cello Trio and Persimmon Ensemble, and regularly performs with EnsembleNewSRQ and the Sarasota Orchestra,

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration between performer and scholar worlds, Jamie has written a series of scholarly papers including The Art of Rehearsing: A Multidimensional Study in Rehearsing String Quartets and Schoenberg Quartet No. 2: Between the Twilight of Tonality and the Dawn of Early Expressionism.

An engaged collaborative partner with contemporary composers, Jamie received a Stetson University Summer Grant to fund 鈥�Hear Her Voice鈥� in 2021. 鈥�Hear Her Voice鈥� features seven solo cello commissions by outstanding female composers. Each piece offers a distinct perspective of isolation experienced in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Jamie is thrilled to be joining the faculty of 麻豆社 Illinois University in Fall of 2024. She also serves on the faculty of Chicago Youth Symphony, University of Northern Iowa, University of Iowa. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and Masters of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She received her Bachelors of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with David Ying.