Corey Jamason, Harpsichord

 Corey Jamason, harpsichordist, was named Artistic Director of the San Francisco Bach Choir in the spring of 2007, becoming the choir’s third director in its 73 year history. As a harpsichordist and chamber music collaborator Jamason is active throughout the United States and Europe. About a recent performance the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jamason's clear-headed performance of the Italian Concerto rang in our ears....(he) navigated easily through the work's contrapuntal maze and gave it the careful, due balance of objective detachment and lofty passion." Jamason has appeared numerous times on NPR's Performance Today and has performed the Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier throughout the United States. Chamber music collaborations have included performances with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Wieland Kuijken, Eva Legene, Eliot Fisk, and Marion Verbruggen. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Camerata Pacifica, and in collaboration with Joseph Silverstein at the Music in the Vineyards Festival. He has performed with a variety of other ensembles including LA Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, El Mundo, and with members of the Bach Aria Group as well as festival appearances including the Berkeley and Bloomington Early Music Festivals, Bach Aria Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Whidbey Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Jamason also co-directs the ensemble Theatre Comique, which specializes in recreating late nineteenth and early twentieth century American musical theatre. In May 2007 he conducted performances of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Bloomington Early Music Festival in celebration of the 400^th anniversary of the opera’s premiere.

Born in New York City, he received degrees in music from SUNY College at Purchase, Yale University, where he was a student of Richard Rephann, and from Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where he received a Doctor of Music degree. Recent recordings include performances with the violinist Gilles Apap, El Mundo, and with American Bach Soloists. Since 2001 he has been a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.