Eamonn Dougan, Chief Conductor of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra

Eamonn Dougan is an inspirational communicator with a wide-ranging repertoire and is a renowned vocal coach and baritone.

Eamonn is Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, founding Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices, Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society, and Chief Conductor for Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

“It was the first of many occasions when conductor Eamonn Dougan would demonstrate a remarkable knack for finding the perfect balance between allowing the emotion time to speak while keeping everything moving” (Bachtrack - MacMillan Seven Last Words).

“under conductor Eamonn Dougan  [Britten Sinfonia] created an intensity of atmosphere that made one wonder why this music [MacMillan Seven Last Words] would ever have needed visuals.”  (The Guardian)

Jersey Chamber Orchestra

Established by Music in Action in October 2008, the Jersey Chamber Orchestra performs at least three concerts each year.  The premise is to perform technically challenging and exciting programmes not otherwise heard in Jersey. 

The orchestra is led by Anna Smith who plays with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.  

The orchestra is made up of a mixture of local artists and overseas professionals. Bursary places are offered for up to 4 young musicians to perform in each concert.

The orchestra has performed with many established soloists including Sir James Galway, Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Lawrence Power, Alison Balsom.  It has also worked with such singers as Elizabeth Watts, Sophie Bevan, Lawrence Zazzo, Victoria Simmonds and Kate Royal.

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Alongside Eamonn’s regular conducting, upcoming projects include returns to conduct MacMillan’s All the Hills and Vales Along for the Cumnock Tryst’s tenth anniversary Birthday Gala Concert, a return to Chamber Choir Ireland in addition to his directorship of CCI’s training programme ‘CCI Studio’, Ars Nova Copenhagen, continuing his series with Jersey Chamber Orchestra (where concert guests have included Nicola Benedetti, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Lawrence Power, Natalie Clein, Alison Balsom, Elizabeth Watts, Sophie Bevan, Lawrence Zazzo, Victoria Simmonds and Kate Royal) and recording with De Profundis on Hyperion for the 4th Morales disc in the series. Eamonn also heads to London, Krakow & Warsaw to tour his beautiful Polish Baroque programme, taken from his highly commended series (recorded on CORO) of Italian maestri at the Polish Court of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Eamonn will also lead a new programme for ‘The Song Company’ on its May/June ’25 Australian tour.

In addition, Eamonn conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus in Handel Messiah at Royal Festival Hall in December, and he makes his debut conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of 2025.