Composition


“Jamie Powe is a multi-faceted artist; conductor, composer and singer. Pulling on his strength as a performing musician, his compositional soundworld is beautiful but also expertly crafted for ensembles and singers. The two pieces he composed for National Youth Choir in 2024 are exceptional and he is a wonderful collaborator. I would fully recommend any commissioning musical organisation to work with Jamie.”

— Ruth Evans, Executive Producer of National Youth Choir

 

Jamie is a London based composer with a particular affinity for choral writing, drawing on his extensive experience as a conductor and singer. He is particularly drawn to evocative and emotionally driven text, and loves working collaboratively with writers, ensembles and commissioners.

He studied composition at Oxford with Toby Young and Deborah Pritchard, and continued his studies at The Royal Academy of Music with David Gorton and Gareth Moorcraft, alongside his choral conducting MA. He was one of the 2024/5 Young Composers with National Youth Choir. Recent commissions include The Gun Mass, which has been performed in both the US and UK, and exhibited at St Andrews’ University, as well as choral settings of Sara Teasdale, Sappho, and Catullus, and an organ piece for Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

Below is a list of works. Please email me a jamiepowe101@ gmail. com for purchasing options, or to enquire about a commission.

 

Choral Works

  • A setting of Haley Hodges poem lamenting for the victims of gun violence in The US. More information about the piece here. Mass shooting data here.

    Recording. Perusal Score.

  • A setting of Sara Teasdale about finding hope in difficult times. Composed for National Youth Choir 18-25.

    Recording. Perusal score.

  • A setting of Sappho fragments about yearning and desire. Composed for National Youth Choir Fellowship.

    ‘I need you. I ache for you. I burn for you’.

    Recording. Perusal Score.

  • A setting of Catullus 85.

    ‘Odi et amo. Quare id faciem fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.’

    ‘I hate and I love. Why do I do so, perhaps you ask? I do not know, but I feel it happening, and it is excruciating.’

    Recording. Perusal Score.

  • A setting of Catullus 101, for the funeral of his brother.

    ‘Hail, and Farewell.’

    Perusal Score.

  • Perusal.

 

Other Works

  • Setting of Thomas Hardy’s Neutral Tones for Simon Wallfisch and Sholto Kynoch as part of The Oxford Lieder Festival.

    Recording. Perusal.

  • Can be performed as a set or individually. (I , 3'; II, 3.5', III, 4.5').

    Perusal.

  • Settings of W.H.Auden’s The Third Temptation and Lullaby.

    Please email for perusal score/purchasing options.

  • Please email for perusal score/purchasing options.

  • Please email for perusal score/purchasing options.

 

Arrangement

“The folk song, ‘The Lass of Aughrim’ [… was] sensitively arranged by the choir’s musical director, Jamie Powe.” - The Guardian

Jamie arranges for choirs and contemporary a cappella groups. He has won the Outstanding Arrangement award at Voice Festival UK and has arranged for groups such as The Fourth Choir, The Oxford Belles, The Oxford Alternotives, Chanteuse and Somerville College Choir. Listen below, and get in touch if you’d like to commission an arrangement.