Jamie Tweed

Trombone, Royal College of Music

From a musical family, Jamie began playing trombone at the age of seven, taught by Alan Hutt. He was awarded a scholarship place at Wells Cathedral School in 2008, and after his studies at Wells with Alan, and later Andy Fawbert and Emily White, he moved to London, and to the Royal Academy of Music, studying under Mark Templeton, Mattew Gee, Dudley Bright and Ian Bousfield.

Jamie is now a busy freelancer, playing with the likes of the LSO, and the BBC Concert, Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the English National Ballet and in London’s West End. He has performed around the country with orchestras such as the Opera North and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Ed Leaker’s Swing Machine, and at music festival around the country. In 2018 he was the principal trombone of the Britten Pears Orchestra.

He is a founding member of the award-winning trombone quartet Slide Action, winning the Royal Overseas League mixed ensemble competition in 2020, and the following year becoming Britten Pears Young Artists. Slide Action is sponsored by Denis Wick

Jamie is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, studying with Byron Fulcher, Linsay Shilling, Matt Knight and Becky Smith. He is a Herbert Howells and Robert Fielden Scholar, and a recipient of the London Symphony Orchestra Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme.