Jamie Bernstein

Guest Artist

Jamie Bernstein is a narrator, writer, and broadcaster who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others. She grew up in an atmosphere bursting with music, theater, and literature. Her father, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, together with her mother, 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. Her symphony pops concert “Bernstein on Broadway,” produced with conductor Michael Barrett, has enjoyed success with the Vancouver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic, among others. The program—an evening of Leonard Bernstein's music for Broadway—features concert narration performed live with orchestra and vocalists. Replicating her father's lifelong compulsion to share and teach, Jamie Bernstein has written and produced several concerts for families and young people on the music of Copland, Mozart, Bernstein, and others. The acclaimed program “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father modeled after his own groundbreaking Young People's Concerts, has been presented by Carnegie Hall Family Concerts, the Caramoor Festival, and orchestras across the country. In 2009 Jamie Bernstein was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a youth concert narration, in partnership with the orchestra's education department, based around Pennsylvania state education standards. The final program, “Music Can Morph: Folk Music in the Concert Hall,” is being presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra in nine sold-out school-hour concerts during the 20092010 season.

At the 2010 OBF

The Bernstein Beat
Bernstein on Broadway

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