Jamie Crick
Where did Jamie get his big break? Who's his ideal dinner guest? Find out more about Classic FM's Jamie Crick.
Biography
Jamie joined Classic FM in 1993, but his career has crossed many areas of the entertainment business from west end musicals to football.
When Jamie was 11, he was cast in the Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice hit musical Evita with Elaine Paige and David Essex. Instead of choosing to follow a glittering stage career however, a career in broadcasting beckoned and he hasn't looked back since.
He started off working for BBC Three Counties Radio demonstrating his considerable journalistic skill by hosting a daily three-hour all talk/news breakfast programme and has been a director and presenter of 'Spurs TV' which broadcast from the famous Tottenham Hotspur Football Club at White Hart Lane stadium.
While at Classic FM, Jamie has presented 'Opera in the Park' to 40,000 people at Temple Newsom in Leeds, and has hosted the record attempt to create the world’s largest orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle at the magnificent Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He is the presenter of the Sainsbury’s Classic FM Youth Orchestra series of concerts, and a regular contributor of reviews and articles to the Classic FM Magazine.
Jamie is a Londoner born and bred, though a chunk of his family come from Italy and half of his family live in Newcastle in the North East of England.
His current hobbies include singing, cycling, football, current affairs and (not surprisingly!) music.
Fact File
Place of Birth:
Chelsea, London.
First broadcast:
Hospital Radio, St John's County Sound in Guildford.
First experience of classical music:
My mum taking me and my brother to see G&S operettas.
How do you relax:
A good movie and a glass or two of red.
Personality you'd like to meet:
Beethoven - though he might not make the best drinking partner.
