registered charity - click here to make a donation

New Dates Added!

Jamie Savan - cornett, Artistic Director

Jamie Savan (cornett) began playing the cornett in 1996 while reading Music at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He subsequentlystudied with Jeremy West at the Royal College of Music in London, funded by a Leverhulme studentship; and with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, with the aid of scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. Jamie has also recently completed a doctorate in Performance Practice at the University of Birmingham. Jamie has been a busy freelance musician since 1997 and is in demand as a player of treble and tenor cornetts with many groups in the UK and continental Europe. He began his association with His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts in 2003, and became a full member of the ensemble in 2005. Jamie teaches cornett at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the University of Birmingham, where he also lectures in Baroque Performance Practice.