Alasdair Jamieson

Alasdair Jamieson was born in Edinburgh in 1956. Having graduated from St. Andrews University he trained as a teacher at Cambridge. His first post was as Director of Music at Cheltenham College Junior School. Whilst in that town he organised the film programme for the Cheltenham Festival of Music. Other teaching posts followed - in Gloucester, at Birmingham University, in Abingdon, at Bootham School in York, Skipton Girls’ High School and Pocklington School. A spell of research work in the 1980’s into the music of the contemporary Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi led to him sitting as an adjudicator for the Choral Composition prize in Arezzo. He has recently completed a thesis on the Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn (1868 - 1916) based on Durham University. He is a Lay Clerk at Ripon Cathedral. He has conducted operas in England and Italy and has recently directed a production of Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover with York Opera.