Music

I've always been somewhat of a keen musician. While not quite as active as I once was, I still play for the odd event, wedding or function. I produce a (what was once fortnightly) music podcast, although is currently on hold as I settle into my DPhil research. Stay tuned!

Performances
Videos

Podcast
Compositions

Performances

  • Some Day My Prince Will Come - Jazz Style A jazzed up version of the popular Disney classic. Originally played for the Signing of the Register at a friend's wedding.
  • Rimsky Korsakov's Piano Concerto Here's a recording of the piano concerto I played with my old school orchestra on 10th July 2004. There's an introduction at the beginning by the Director of Music for some background info. Apologies for the slightly fuzzy sound quality - I had to compress it so that it was a suitable size for download.
  • Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto One of my dreams was to play the piano with an orchestra, and hence this was probably one of the greatest moments of my life. This is last movement of this concerto, and the concert also consisted of Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto played by a friend. There are some squirmingly-obvious bum notes (one rather unfortunately at the beginning) but I think it went pretty well overall.

Videos

A medley of themes from the first Harry Potter movies. Based on a GCSE Performance, and has almost 60,000 views on YouTube! For better audio quality, the mp3 is here.

The last part of the final movement of Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto. It's my keyboard playing the orchestral part in the background. I eventually learnt the whole movement and played it in a college recital.

Can you guess the 15 Christmas songs in this medley? Click the video to find the answers.

My entry for a BBC Talent contest. The task was to compose the music for a 3 minute piece of wildlife video (supplied with no sound). While I was inevitably not going to win, it was certainly fun and worthwhile doing!

Podcast

That's right, I now have a podcast! It's full of fun, frolics and a bit of piano. It's the Jamie Frost Piano Show Podcast.
Just search for 'Jamie Frost' on iTunes, and you can subscribe to the podcast, getting new episodes automatically.
Enjoy. :-)

The feed to subscribe to: http://www.jamiefrost.co.uk/music/podcasts/podcast.xml

Compositions

  • Envy 2006. Composed within a limited time for a 'composers recital' at Worcester, this is one of a series of an eventual 7 based on the 7 deadly sins. This recording is the performance on the evening itself.
  • Lune de Lumiere 2004. My A2-level "Romantic Miniature" composition, performed on piano. The idea of the piece was to exploit 'repitition' on a number of different levels, from the repitition of small motifs or even single notes to the repetition of whole phrases.
  • Theme & Variations 2004. The second of my A2 compositions. There are 3 variations of the initial classical-style theme, the first legato, the second jagged and staccato, and the last highly virtuosic (I kinda went all out on the virtuosic front after realising I didn't have time to get the piece performed).
  • Christmas Carol 2003. Our winter term task for A2 was to right a Christmas Carol to be performed at our school Christmas service. I decided to reuse the carol I had wrote previously (see below) this time arranging it for a choir instead of a string quartet. In the end the head of music decided to use none of the carols our class had written, and to top it off I discovered that it didn't fit into any of the A2 composition topics. Cheese alert!
  • Allegro Vivace 2003. My AS-level "Romantic Miniature" composition, performed on piano. It has a regular ABA structure, with the middle B section a slightly plaigarised Chopin-style prelude. I entered this for the "BBC Composition Competition".
  • Dispossed (Group Performance) 2001. This is a group performance of people in my GCSE music class, but I composed and generally organised it. It was spurred on when the 'London Mozart Group' came around our school. Our class and 'Coombe Girls' were divided into groups, and had to devise a composition based on a made-up script called 'Dispossessed'.