Jamie Powe is a composer and conductor, based in London, UK. As a student at Somerville College, Oxford, he studied composition with Toby Young and Deborah Pritchard, before continuing his compositional studies at the Royal Academy of Music, alongside his choral conducting MA. He was also one of the National Youth Choir Young Composers 2024/25.

He particularly loves writing choral music and has an affinity for working with text. Recent commissions include “The Gun Mass” (a setting of words by American poet Haley Hodges in lament for the victims of gun violence), settings of Sara Teasdale and Sappho for National Youth Choir of Great Britain, two settings of Catullus, and an organ piece for Trinity College, Cambridge. He also regularly arranges for choral groups including The Fourth Choir, Somerville College Chapel Choir, and Chanteuse. Most recently, he has arranged James Joyce’s only known musical composition, “Bid Adieu,” for SATB choir for performance at Wilton’s Music Hall.

As a conductor, Powe received a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he achieved a distinction in his MA. He was also awarded the Thomas Armstrong Prize for outstanding choral leadership. He has been Musical Director of the Chapel Choir of Regent’s Park College, Oxford (2019-2021) and The Arcadian Singers (2019-2023), and currently directs The Fourth Choir, The New London Singers, Laurelin Voices, Putney Choral Society, and The Aubrey Singers.

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