Biography

Jamie Clark is an internationally acclaimed cellist whose career as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator has taken her throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. She has appeared in major venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. As a concerto soloist, she has appeared with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, and University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra.

Clark has collaborated with members of the Takács, Cleveland, Juilliard, Ying, Borromeo, Cavani, and Malibran Quartets, as well as distinguished artists including Kim Kashkashian, Máté Szücs of the Berlin Philharmonic, Carol Rodland, and Oleh Krysa. Her international engagements include performances and festival appearances throughout Denmark, Sweden, Czechia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Colombia, and Brazil. She serves as a faculty artist at the Charleston Chamber Music Intensive and has appeared on the faculties of Cellíssimo in Medellín, Colombia; Music and More SummerFest in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Gramado in Concert in Brazil; and the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

An active collaborator with contemporary composers, Clark has commissioned and premiered many new works. Her Hear Her Voice commissioning project brought together seven female composers to create new works for solo cello. She also commissioned Nicky Sohn’s cello concerto The World According to…, gave its premiere, and subsequently recorded the work with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice under the direction of Kenny Lee. The recording appears alongside Andrea Casarrubios’ MIRAGE on the album Call of the Wild.

Clark’s discography includes a 2026 Naxos release featuring premiere recordings of George Onslow’s string quintets. Pizzicato praised the performances as “energetic and joyful,” noting that they “immediately highlight the musical side of the works” and “breathe life into” Clark’s technically accomplished interpretations. She is also featured on upcoming recordings of chamber works by Joey Roukens for Azica Records and works by Chen Yi and Zhou Long, scheduled for release in 2027.

Clark is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado, which brings together performers and composers for performances, commissions, and collaborative projects. The festival was recently awarded a Barlow Commission Prize supporting the commission and premiere of Scott Lee’s new string sextet Strata. She is also a founding member of the Parrish Trio and performs with Kinetic Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, and EnsembleNewSRQ.

Clark serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Iowa. She is also the founder of Messy Masterpiece, an online platform launching in 2026 featuring interviews, podcasts, workshops, and writing exploring the realities of pursuing excellence in the arts and other fields.

Clark earned her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz, and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with David Ying.