JAMIE PRINGLE attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music from 1992 to 1995 during which time he played the Cello Concerto by Saint-Saens with the Junior Academy Orchestra. He won a Scholarship to the Purcell School in 1994 and an Entrance Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1998. He gained a BMus degree and an LRAM at the Academy followed by a post-graduate diploma in performance with distinction. He was awarded the Academy’s prestigious DipRAM for an outstanding recital, the Peter Halling Memorial Prize and the May Mukle cello prize.

Jamie learned with William Pleeth for five years and also studied with Mats Lindström, David Strange, Robert Cohen, Paul Watkins, and Lionel Handy. Jamie has played in Master classes for Steven Doane, Ralph Kirshbaum, Alexander Baillie, Timothy Hugh, Colin Carr, Martin Lovett and for Arto Noros.

He has given many recitals at venues in London and in Europe and played the Schumann Cello Concerto with a London orchestra in February 2005. Jamie is an enthusiastic chamber music and orchestral player. He was principal cellist with the Sinfonia Cymru orchestra based in Cardiff in 2005-06 and in 2006 toured  Italy and Spain. He played with the South Bank Sinfonia for the 2006–2007  season, giving a performance of Tchaichovsky’s Rococo Variations with them in May 2007 and performing twice in the Wigmore Hall with chamber groups during that year.