Jamie is the recipient of the Peabody Career Development Grant from Johns Hopkins University, and the Thelma A. Robinson Award given by the International Conductors Guild and the National Federation of Music Clubs. As a steadfast advocate for music education, Jamie is a frequent guest clinician for youth orchestras throughout the United States including the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra, Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestras, Southern Maryland Youth Orchestra, and the Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic. This past January, Jamie conducted the first All-Region honor orchestra presented by the Alabama Orchestra Association. In May of 2022, Jamie concluded a two-year appointment as Director of Orchestral Studies at The University of Alabama, where in he conducted the Huxford Symphony Orchestra, and in March of 2022 conducted Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin with the University of Alabama Opera Theater. Jamie studied conducting at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Conservatory. His primary conducting teachers were Marin Alsop, David Effron, Arthur Fagen, John Ratledge, and Joseph Young.

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