Saturday 28th March 2026, 7:30pm
Britten: Lachrymae Op 48
Prokofiev: Seven pieces from Romeo and Juliet (arr Borisovsky)
York Bowen: Romance in A Op 21 no 1
Tabakova: Suite in jazz style
Brahms: Viola sonata in A minor, Op 120 no 1
Programme to be confirmed
Jamie Howe is a postgraduate violist at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Simon Rowland-Jones and Andriy Viytovych. He is a recipient of the Jean Middlemiss Award through The Robert Anderson Trust. He has also received the Homan Potterton Bursary Award from the Irish Heritage Bursary Awards and the Audience Prize at the Camerata Ireland Academy. Jamie has had the pleasure of performing in the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Carnegie Hall as a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He is a former Principal Viola of the Ulster Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Jamie has taken part in masterclasses with Timothy Ridout, Lawrence Power, and Garth Knox.
Jamie is a member of the Regency String Quartet, a recent winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Strings and Keyboard Ensembles Prize. The quartet was selected as Kirckman Concert Society Young Artists for 2025/26 and have been awarded several prizes at the Royal Academy of Music including the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize. Having recently made their debut in Kings Place and Conway Hall, the quartet has also taken part in IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses and the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme.
Jamie has worked under a number of leading conductors, including Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson, Semyon Bychkov, and, most recently, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Antonio Pappano as part of the String Experience Scheme with the London Symphony Orchestra. With the Camerata Ireland orchestra, under the direction of pianist Barry Douglas, Jamie enjoyed an extensive concert tour of China.
With playing of ‘great clarity’ and ‘surprising strength for one so young’, Jamie Cochrane is equally at home as a concerto soloist, song accompanist or chamber musician. He is keen to bring music to a wide audience, programming less widely-performed works alongside audience favourites. His latest successes include being selected as a Tillett Trust Debut Artist and winning the 2024 Norah Sande Award. Jamie has performed internationally, including venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and recent performances have included Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Colchester Symphony Orchestra and Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also been fortunate to receive lessons and masterclasses from pianists such as Steven Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin and Tom Poster, amongst others.
From 2019 to 2022, Jamie was the pianist in the Oxford-based, contemporary music group Ensemble ISIS, where he had the opportunity to work with composers Shirley Thompson and Cheryl Frances-Hoad, amongst others, as well as collaborate with and perform works by student composers. During this time, the ensemble was also involved in a recording project in connection with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Chamber music continues to be important to Jamie, and recent performances include the Brahms Horn Trio and Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for two pianos.
After being crowned Essex Young Musician of the Year in 2018, Jamie went on to study at Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded both instrumental and academic scholarships. Having graduated with a first-class degree, he went on to hold the position of Graduate Musician in Residence from 2022-23 at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, whilst continuing his studies in London. Jamie has recently finished his Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music with William Fong and Michael Dussek, where he was also awarded a DipRAM for outstanding performance in a postgraduate final recital. His studies were generously supported by the Wayne Sleep Foundation, Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and the Cullis Bursary Fund.