Jamie Brown

Jamie studied music at Sheffield University and composition with Judith Weir, having his first opera Dearly Beheaded premiered in 2005. A semi-staged opera, Meadows of Gold, was premiered at St. John's Smith Square in 2009, and a third, Westerners, is on its way. He has performed in many operas (as a chorus member or clarinettist). From 2006-2007 Jamie produced opera for the Aldeburgh Festival, including world premieres of works by Emily Hall and Tansy Davies, and coordinated a series of workshops at Snape Maltings for young composers and librettists to learn their craft.

Since then, he has taken on further training as a translator, and has completed a Masters degree in opera translation. This has led to the birth of The Language and Music Network, an organisation that produces cross-disciplinary work such as Jamie's new piece A Cornish Requiem and also encourages more links between the worlds of languages and music.