Jamie Wind
Whitmarsh is an award-winning American composer, percussionist, and conductor
on faculty at Oklahoma City University. He regularly performs with
clarinet/percussion duo Duo Rodinia, and is Music Director for the Oklahoma
Composer's Orchestra. Jamie holds a Master's degree in Music Composition from
Florida State University and Bachelor's degrees in Percussion Performance and
Music Composition from Oklahoma City University.
Jamie has
placed first in the 2012 PAS Composition Contest, second in the 2013 PAS
Composition Contest, first in the FSU Orchestral Composition Competition,
honorable mention in the James P. and Shirley J. Obrien Endowment Composition
Competition, first in the 2013 MTNA National Composition Contest, and was a
winner for Noise-to-Signal Ensemble’s 2016 Call for Scores. His music has been
performed at several national and international conventions/conferences,
including Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Society of
Composer's, Incorporated Regional Conference, International Trumpet Guild
Convention, MTNA National, Regional and State Conventions, Florida Flute
Association Convention, Oklahoma Day of Percussion, and the 16th
Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University, as well as by such
groups as the Tallahassee Composer's Orchestra, Northern Illinois University
Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, Broadway Community Chorus, National
Broadway Chorus, Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, soprano Rachelle
Fleming, principal trumpet of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra Ryan Beach, steel
pan virtuoso Liam Teague, and many more.
His
performance activities are wide-ranging, including being the solo percussionist
for a re-staging of Nancy Smith Fichter's Soundings, joining a mass of
percussionists in performing John Luther Adams' Inuksuit at the Ringling
Museum in Sarasota, performing as soloist with the Tallahassee Composer's
Orchestra on Joseph Craven's Concerto for Tenor Pan in C, and touring
the Eastern U.S. with a new music ensemble which culminated in a performance at
Carnegie Hall. As a member of Duo Rodinia, Jamie has performed as guest artist
at many universities, as well as at the 2015 and 2016 CMS Southern Regional
Conferences, the SCI 50th National Convention, the 2016 SCI National
Student Convention, as the featured guest artists for the 2016 SCI Region VI
Conference, and guest artist ensemble for the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra.
Jamie is a multiple-time soloist at the Oklahoma Day of Percussion, and has
performed for the 2012, 2015 and 2016 College Music Society Southern Regional
Conferences. He can be heard on the compact discs Firefish, the Music of Blake Tyson, Florida State University
Percussion Ensemble, Volume II: Not Far From Here and Florida State University Percussion
Ensemble, Volume III: Ten Windows, the last of which contains his
work NAILS!!!. His work Aqueous Transfusion may be heard on Tyler
Tolles’ debut disc In
Touch,
and his works Portraits and Insights may be heard on Ryan
Beach’s forthcoming solo disc.
As a
conductor, Jamie has premiered over 20 works, and has conducted at several
high-profile events, including at both the 16th and 17th Biennial Festival of
New Music at Florida State University, the Florida Flute Association 2015
Convention, Oklahoma Day of Percussion, the world premiere of Ben Harrell's
opera Plight, and
more. He spends his summers teaching theory, aural skills, and composition at
the OCU Performing Arts Academy, and percussion at the OCU Percussion Camp. He
is on percussion staff with Yukon High School and is also highly sought after
as a wind/percussion arranger with A103 Productions.
Jamie has studied percussion with
David Steffens, Steve Craft, Ben Fraley and Tommy Dobbs ; composition with
Edward Knight, Ladislav Kubik, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Lendell Black, Kris Maloy,
and Mark Wingate; conducting with Matthew Mailman; and steel pan with Mia
Gormandy. His music is published by Jamie Wind Whitmarsh Music, C. Alan
Publications, and Engine Room Publications. He is a member of SCI, ASCAP, and
PAS and serves on the Composition Contest Committee for PAS as well as chair of
the Composition Education Subcommittee.