Corey Jamason, Hapsichord
Corey Jamason, harpsichordist, is an active soloist and chamber music collaborator throughout the United States and Europe. About a recent performance the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Jamason's clear-headed performance of the Italian Concerto rang in our ears....navigated easily through the work's contrapuntal maze and gave it the careful, due balance of objective detachment and lofty passion." He has appeared numerous times on National Public Radio's Performance Today and has performed the Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier throughout the United States. Chamber music collaborations in recent years have included performances with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Wieland Kuijken, Eva Legêne, 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 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and LA Opera as well as festival appearances at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Bach Aria Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. 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 and was a student of Elisabeth Wright. Recent recordings include performances with the violinist Gilles Apap, El Mundo on Koch, and with American Bach Soloists on Delos. Since 2001 he has been a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Jamason also co-directs and is conductor of the ensemble Theatre Comique, which specializes in recreating late nineteenth and early twentieth century American musical theatre. In May 2007 he will conduct performances of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Bloomington Early Music Festival in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the opera’s premiere.