Jamie Clark
Cello
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Cellist Jamie Clark of Boulder, Colorado has been praised for her sensitive, imaginative, and colorful sense of artistry. She has concertized throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Eastman's Kodak Hall, New York City's American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Jamie is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, a non- profit organization based in Colorado. The festival strives to cross cultural, geographic, and temporal divides between performers, composers, and audience members, inspiring dynamic interaction within the entire Festival community. This year the festival was named winner of a Barlow Commission Prize, funding the commission and premiere of a new string sextet “Strata” by Scott Lee.
Her commitment to community engagement has led to collaborations with the Music For Food as well as Open Scene, a vibrant orlando-based non-profit organization championing multiculturalism and inclusion through artistic and humanistic programs. She performs with Kinetic Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, and EnsembleNewSRQ, and also serves on the faculty of festivals across America, Europe, and South America. Recent appointments include faculty at Cellíssimo in Medellín Colombia, Music and More in Trebinje Bosnia, Gramado in Concert in Brazil, Charleston Chamber Music Intensive in Charleston South Carolina, and FCMF in Boulder Colorado.
An engaged collaborative partner with contemporary composers, Jamie recently recorded a new Cello Concerto Album “The Call of the Wild” conducted by Kenny Lee featuring “The World According to….” by Nicky Sohn and “Mirage” by Andrea Casarrubios that will be released in January 2027. She recently recorded a String Quintet album for Naxos that was released in January of 2026. She also be a featured artist on an upcoming album of chamber works by Joey Roukens for Azica Records and an album of works by Chen Yi and Zhou Long in 2027.
Jamie is the founder of Messy Masterpiece, an online platform that will be launched in Fall 2026. Messy Masterpiece features blogs, interviews, podcasts, and workshops designed to reveal the truth behind the pursuit of excellence. It reveals the universal truths of self doubt, performance anxiety, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and more in hopes that artists will no longer mistake these for signs they are incapable of achieving their dreams. Messy Masterpiece features interviews and ideas of the leading artists, athletes, scientists, and thinkers of our time. The mission is to reveal the true messiness of masterpieces and to offer tools to make the messy middle more enjoyable along the way.
Jamie serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Iowa. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and Masters of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She received her Bachelors of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with David Ying.
Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Jamie is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, a non- profit organization based in Colorado. The festival strives to cross cultural, geographic, and temporal divides between performers, composers, and audience members, inspiring dynamic interaction within the entire Festival community. This year the festival was named winner of a Barlow Commission Prize, funding the commission and premiere of a new string sextet “Strata” by Scott Lee.
Her commitment to community engagement has led to collaborations with the Music For Food as well as Open Scene, a vibrant orlando-based non-profit organization championing multiculturalism and inclusion through artistic and humanistic programs. She performs with Kinetic Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, and EnsembleNewSRQ, and also serves on the faculty of festivals across America, Europe, and South America. Recent appointments include faculty at Cellíssimo in Medellín Colombia, Music and More in Trebinje Bosnia, Gramado in Concert in Brazil, Charleston Chamber Music Intensive in Charleston South Carolina, and FCMF in Boulder Colorado.
An engaged collaborative partner with contemporary composers, Jamie recently recorded a new Cello Concerto Album “The Call of the Wild” conducted by Kenny Lee featuring “The World According to….” by Nicky Sohn and “Mirage” by Andrea Casarrubios that will be released in January 2027. She recently recorded a String Quintet album for Naxos that was released in January of 2026. She also be a featured artist on an upcoming album of chamber works by Joey Roukens for Azica Records and an album of works by Chen Yi and Zhou Long in 2027.
Jamie is the founder of Messy Masterpiece, an online platform that will be launched in Fall 2026. Messy Masterpiece features blogs, interviews, podcasts, and workshops designed to reveal the truth behind the pursuit of excellence. It reveals the universal truths of self doubt, performance anxiety, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and more in hopes that artists will no longer mistake these for signs they are incapable of achieving their dreams. Messy Masterpiece features interviews and ideas of the leading artists, athletes, scientists, and thinkers of our time. The mission is to reveal the true messiness of masterpieces and to offer tools to make the messy middle more enjoyable along the way.
Jamie serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Iowa. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and Masters of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She received her Bachelors of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with David Ying.
Research areas
- Strings