Jamie Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein is a narrator, writer and broadcaster who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her enthusiasm with others.
Jamie grew up in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Her father, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, together with her mother, the pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre, and their legions of friends in the arts, created a spontaneous, ebullient household that turned Jamie into a dyed-in-the-wool cultural enthusiast.
Replicating her father's lifelong compulsion to share and teach, Jamie has devised several ways of communicating her own excitement about classical music, including "The Bernstein Beat," a concert for young people about her father, modelled after his own groundbreaking Young People's Concerts. In the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons, she was invited to host and co-create a series of Carnegie Hall Family Concerts which included, "Extreme Orchestra," "Practice, Practice, Practice," "Meet the Brass Family" and "Meet the Percussion Family."
Jamie travels the world as a concert narrator, performing her various family concerts as well as standard concert narrations such as Walton's "Facade" and her father's Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish." She is a frequent speaker on musical topics, including in-depth discussions of her father's works.
In her role as a broadcaster, Jamie has produced and hosted numerous shows for radio stations in the United States and Great Britain. In 1997, Jamie hosted the New York Philharmonic's live national radio broadcasts. She has subsequently hosted several series on New York's classical station, 96.3 FM-WQXR. Most recently, Jamie has developed a series for BBC-3 about music in New York City.
In addition to writing her own scripts and narrations, Jamie writes articles and poetry, which have appeared in such publications as Symphony, DoubleTake and Gourmet.
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