Jamie Bernstein is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Her 2018 memoir Famous Father Girl is about growing up with composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre, and literature.
Jamie has written and narrated concerts about Mozart, Aaron Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as The Bernstein Beat, a family concert about her father modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She appears worldwide performing her own scripted narrations as well as standard concert narrations, such as Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Jamie has produced and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as many summer broadcasts from Tanglewood, and she recently narrated the NPR podcast The New York Phil Story: Made in New York. She is the co-director of Crescendo: The Power of Music, an award-winning documentary film focusing on children in struggling urban communities, who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation.
Additionally, Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, The New York Times, and Opera News. She is the co-editor of “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a monthly newsletter pertaining to her father’s legacy.
The Village Trip is proud to have worked with Jamie since 2022, when she created a special festival cabaret based on her father’s Greenwich Village musical Wonderful Town, with friends Janis Siegel, Michael Kelly, and Yaron Gershovsky.
September 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Bernstein Remix! A Benefit for Artful Learning
May 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9 pm
Person Place Thing podcast with Randy Cohen and Jamie Bernstein