Jamie Bunce is a conductor, singer, and arranger who began her career as a high school choral director in her home state of New Jersey. Dr. Bunce currently serves as Associate Director of Choral Studies at Kansas State University, where she conducts the Collegiate Chorale and University Treble Chorus and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, choral methods, and aural skills. She additionally serves as Artistic Director of the Kansas State University Summer Choral Institute and Konza Music Academy.

Dr. Bunce earned her DMA in choral conducting from the University of Miami Frost School of Music under the direction of Dr. Amanda Quist and holds degrees in music education and choral pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University. Her research interests include works by underrepresented composers of both early and new music, having authored the world’s first analysis and conductor’s guide for Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered.

An active guest conductor and clinician across the United States, Dr. Bunce has been featured in Chorus America for bringing early music into the high school choral classroom. Her ensembles have been featured at conferences, on demonstration recordings for outlets such as Oxford Music Publishing, and on national television. She has previously served as Associate Director of the Princeton Girlchoir, Conductor of the Wagner College Treble Choir, Assistant Director of Miami Collegium Musicum, and the Graduate Associate Conductor of the Frost Chorale. Her first love is singing, having sung with professional ensembles such as Gallicantus, Seraphic Fire, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and Blue Earth Camerata.

Dr. Bunce is a community song leader and dance enthusiast and arranges early American folk repertoire for choral performance.