Artistic Director

Artistic Director Corey Jamason, harpsichordist and conductor, is an active soloist and chamber music collaborator throughout the United States and Europe. About a recent performance the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jamason's clear-headed performance of the Italian Concerto rang in our ears...(he) navigated easily through the work's contrapuntal maze and gave it the careful, due balance of objective detachment and lofty passion." Jamason has appeared numerous times on NPR's Performance Today and has performed the Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier throughout the United States. Chamber music collaborations have included performances with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Wieland Kuijken, Eva Legêne, Eliot Fisk, and Marion Verbruggen. With the ensemble Camerata Pacifica, Jamason has directed for many seasons concerts of early music throughout Southern California. 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 LA Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, El Mundo, and with members of the Bach Aria Group. Summer festival appearances include the Berkeley and Bloomington Early Music Festivals, Bach Aria Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Whidbey Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Jamason also co-directs the ensemble Theatre Comique, which specializes in recreating late nineteenth and early twentieth century American musical theatre. In May 2007 he conducted performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Bloomington Early Music Festival in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the work's premiere.

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, and with American Bach Soloists. A chapter he has written, entitled “The Performer and the  Composer”, will appear in the forthcoming book The Cambridge History of Musical Performance, published by Cambridge University Press. Since 2001 he has been a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was appointed Artistic Director of the San Francisco Bach Choir in July of 2007, taking his place as only the third musical leader in the choir's 72-year history.