Conductor
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Jamie has conducted a wide variety of ensembles from symphony and studio orchestras to contemporary chamber groups and children’s choirs.
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He was the Children’s Chorusmaster for the Santa Fe Opera for many years, and the founding conductor of the Desert Chorale Children’s Chorus and the Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble.
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He was also the founding conductor of the Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra in Texas and has conducted many side-by-side performances with students and professionals. From 2007 to 2019 Jamie conducted the annual Music Memory concert and competition, which involved the participation of thousands of elementary students each year, and featured performances by members of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He has also served as the Music Director for dozens of musical theater productions.
Conductor
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Jamie has conducted a wide variety of ensembles from symphony and studio orchestras to contemporary chamber groups and children’s choirs.
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He was the Children’s Chorusmaster for the Santa Fe Opera for many years, and the founding conductor of the Desert Chorale Children’s Chorus and the Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble.
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He was also the founding conductor of the Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra in Texas and has conducted many side-by-side performances with students and professionals. From 2007 to 2019 Jamie conducted the annual Music Memory concert and competition, which involved the participation of thousands of elementary students each year, and featured performances by members of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He has also served as the Music Director for dozens of musical theater productions.
Chamber Music
Brazilian Sonata (3 movements)
Instrumentation: 2 Flutes, Piano, Harp, 2 Percussion | Duration: 17'54"
AUDIO (A Call to Samba) AUDIO (The Lure of the Sea) AUDIO (Certas Senhoras)
Written for the Hope for the Americas concert, benefitting Futures for Children.
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Claus is Comin'
Instrumentation: Cello Choir | Duration: 2'49" | SCORE
An upbeat, festive Christmas arrangement for intermediate level cellists.
Dime lluvia
Instrumentation: Piano, Flute, Percussion | Duration: 4'44" | AUDIO
Lively, modern arrangement of Peruvian folk tune
Double Variations for Bass Trombone and percussion
Instrumentation: Bass Trombone, 2 Percussion | Duration: 8'33" | SCORE
Commissioned by Angel Subero
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In Memory of a Once New World (3 movements)
Instrumentation: Piano, 2 Percussion
Duration: 23'58" | AUDIO (Encounter) AUDIO (Resignation) AUDIO (Struggle)
Commissioned by the New Mexico Music Teachers Association. Premiered in 1992.
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Midnight Sun
Instrumentation: Flute, Native American Flute | Duration: 9'51" | AUDIO
A meditative duet for flute and Native American flute.
New Mexico Landscapes (6 movements)
Instrumentation: Flute, Piano, Percussion, Voice, Guitar, Electronic Tape
Duration: 36'16" | AUDIO
Musical settings inspired by 6 places in New Mexico. Performance includes use of
projected original images to accompany each movement.
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North Marble Island
Instrumentation: 3 French Horns, 3 Narrators | Duration: 6'00"
Musical description of an island bird sanctuary in Glacier Bay, Alaska,
preceded by narration of an original poem.
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Nova Nova Nowell
Instrumentation: 2 Pianos, Timpani, Percussion | Duration: 7'22" | SCORE
A medley of three medieval British Nativity Songs, in a modern arrangement.
Rhythm Sextet (3 movements)
Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Cello, Percussion | Duration: 18'24"
SCORE (Koto) SCORE (Swing Scherzo) SCORE (Improbable Impromptu)
AUDIO (Koto) AUDIO (Swing Scherzo) AUDIO (Improbable Impromptu)
Commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited. Premiered by the California Ear Unit in 2000.
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Simple Gifts (arrangement)
Instrumentation: Cello Choir | Duration: 3'37" | SCORE
Commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Young Strings Cello Choir.
The Dragon Awakes
Instrumentation: Piano, Cello, Audience Participation | Duration: 14'32" | AUDIO
Musical rendering of a dragon waking from slumber and eventually flying from its cave.
Includes significant audience participation.
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop Dancing
Instrumentation: Narrator, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Duration: 26'39" | AUDIO
Traditional New Mexican folk tale set to music. Full of colorful characters and magic.
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“Jamie’s music is fresh, rich and has a depth that makes his compositions a really wonderful trip, truly special. Double Variations for Bass Trombone and Percussion is a unique and fantastic addition to the repertoire. You can hear the refined and detailed process where he captures the essence and shows the many colors of the modern bass trombone in the most beautiful, musical and elegant way.”
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- Angel Subero
Bass Trombonist for the Boston Philharmonic and Boston Pops Orchestras.
Steven Goldblatt Photography
Orchestral
Nightingale Concerto (recorder concerto)
Duration: 32'35" | INFO | SCORE | VIDEO (Sunburnt Mirth) VIDEO (Wings of Poesy) VIDEO (In Fairy Lands Forlorn)
AUDIO (strings of Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary D. White, conductor)
Dallas Zoo Melodies
Duration: 6'16" | SCORE
An orchestrated medley of melodies writtend by children after observing animal behaviors in the zoo.
Dios Nunca Muere (arrangement)
Duration: 5'42" | SCORE
A full orchestral arrangement of the state song of Oaxaca, Mexico
Maka Canchega (percussion concerto)
Duration: 12'00"
Inspired by the ancient Sioux legend of Black Elk
Providence Raptors (for wind symphony)
Duration: 9'28" | SCORE
Inspired by the falcons and owls that make their home in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tema de pascua (concerto for harp and quena)
Duration: 14'41"
Features solo harp and quena (Andean vertical flute).
The Tree
Duration: 44'22" | SCORE
Written for Youth Orchestra with additional professionals, including narrator and saxophone. Premiered by the Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra in 2007
An experience I'll long remember, I am honored to say that my youth orchestra Philadelphia Sinfonia was able to give the live world premiere of Jamie Allen's "Nightingale Concerto for Solo Recorder, Percussion and Strings". Jamie's concerto is stunningly beautiful, moving, haunting and jubilant - all in the same composition! The work is both immediately accessible and highly complex making it enjoyable on so many different levels. A worthy musical rendition and deserving companion to Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale".
-Gary D. White, conductor
Philadelphia Sinfonia
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Choral/Vocal
A Wedding Toast
Instrumentation: SATB Speech Choir | Duration: 3'30"
Humorous setting for speech choir of a scene from The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
Clap! (Dedicated to Our Warriors)
Instrumentation: SSAA | Duration: 7'14" | SCORE
An homage to First Responders during the Covid pandemic
Dance With Shadows
Instrumentation: Voice, Piano | Duration: 4'50"
Setting of a poem by Kathy Walker
Do No Harm
Instrumentation: SATB, Chamber Orchestra OR SATB, Piano | Duration: 9' | PIANO/VOCAL SCORE | CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SCORE | VIDEO
I Am Who We Are
Instrumentation: SATB, Piano, Recorder | Duration: 9'59" | SCORE
Musical settings of poetry by students of the Internationl House in Rhode Island.
Night Sounds
Instrumentation: SA, Piano, Cello | Duration: 3'19"
Setting of a poem by Thomas Middleton
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Instrumentation: SATB, Piano 4 hands | Duration: 5'41" | SCORE
Modern setting of the traditional hymn
The Air, The Melody, The Mystery (3 movements)
Instrumentation: SATB, Oboe, Cello | Duration: 9'39" | SCORE
Setting of texts by Hildegard von Bingen
The Celebration Boogie
Instrumentation: Treble Voices | Duration: 2'34" | AUDIO
For elementary choir
Recorder
Arietta to a Wild Mountain Rose
Instrumentation: Alto, Piano | SCORE
Canonic Duet No. 1
Instrumentation: Altos or Tenors PLAY-ALONG | ALTO SCORE | TENOR SCORE | AUDIO | VIDEO
Canonic Duet No. 2
Instrumentation: Altos or Tenors PLAY-ALONG | ALTO SCORE | TENOR SCORE | AUDIO | VIDEO
Canonic Duet No. 3
Instrumentation: Altos or Tenors PLAY-ALONG | ALTO SCORE | TENOR SCORE | AUDIO | VIDEO
Cute & Colorful Little Killers
Instrumentation: Soprano, Alto, Tenor PLAY-ALONG | AUDIO | ANIMATED VIDEO
een mentaliteit
Instrumentation: SATB PLAY-ALONG | SCORE | EXTENDED VERSION
Eyas
Instrumentation: Alto, Tenor PLAY-ALONG | SCORE | AUDIO
Hungry Hawks Hunting
Instrumentation: Alto, Tenor, Bass PLAY-ALONG | SCORE | AUDIO
Owls in the Cemetery
Instrumentation: Alto, Tenor, Bass PLAY-ALONG | SCORE | AUDIO
Teenagers with Ferraris
Instrumentation: Alto, Tenor, Bass PLAY-ALONG | SCORE | AUDIO
Music by Black Composers (arrangements)
Instrumentation: Various
Scores and Play-Along recordings are available in the American Recorder Society Play-Along Library
Opera
Coeur de Lion
Community Opera loosely based on legends surrounding the life of Richard the Lionhearted. Includes audience singing of a simple melody attributed to him.
Downloadable score is of opening scene only.
Solo Piano
Can You Cuba?
Various pedagogical pieces
Available on demand. Send email via contact page for inquiries and full listing.
Musical Theater
Scripts and songs available on demand. Send email via contact page for inquiries.
Booms
Sudden and inexplicable booming sounds shake up a small and faltering Midwest town. The townspeople react in ways that reveal their characters and, in some cases, open them to change. The booms create fear (and hope) of an alien invasion, bring a media crush, cause a breakup in a teenage romance, reawaken long dead feelings of love, help expose a sheriff’s corruption, and create unexpected economic opportunity. This affectionately satirical musical also pits the findings of science against mob hysteria but closes with love victorious and a sense of mystery and possibility.
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Too Big to Fail, Too Small to Matter
On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, the new management of a small suburban bank struggles to maintain consumer-friendly, conservative policies while the rest of the industry is engulfed in a tide of greed. Difficult choices lead to a seductive growth that significantly alters the character of both the bank and those who run it. Is it too late for human nature to crawl back from the abyss?
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In That Dawn
In a musical that captures the hope and despair of the 1960s, a young journalist, elated by stirrings of social change, plunges into radical politics and the civil rights movement, but finds that historical events and personal tragedy shatter his naïve ideals. Candide meets The Big Chill with a hint of Rent.