She was a founder member of the Menuhin Festival Orchestra, and Professor of Violin and Viola at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
[13][14] In 1926 she travelled to Germany with her sister, at the recommendation of Donald Tovey[7] who was a neighbour and friend, to study with Josef Wolfsthal and later Carl Flesch[15] at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.
Alma Moodie made the final arrangements for her studies abroad and Jamieson stayed in Germany for ten years.
[24] The Beredin Quartet performed in Holland in March 1933, touring The Hague, playing at the Pulchri Studio[25] Doetinchem,[26] and Amsterdam.
[8] In 1936 Jamieson went to Dartington Hall in Devon, where she taught violin at the new school Foxhole, and later in the music department which was being developed by Hans Oppenheim.
[33] During the war the quartet known then as the Dartington Hall Chamber Group, played at the National Gallery concerts and numerous events for CEMA and ENSA, in the south-west of England, with just one trip to the Hebrides in 1943 to entertain the Royal Navy fleet.
[35] Many works were written for the Masters quartet by composers such as Imogen Holst, Brian Easdale, Peter Pope, Benjamin Frankel and Ivor Walsworth.
[7] The quartet gave several performances of chamber music by the English composer William Wordsworth, who was a close friend of the Jamieson family.
[45][46] In 1958 Sir Arthur Bliss, then Master of the Queen's Music, visited the summer school and conducted one of his own compositions.
[52] In 1960 Jamieson performed the Sinfonia Concertante for Viola and Double-bass by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, with James Edward Merrett and the Orion Orchestra, conducted by Blanche Mundlak.
[54] The Association of American String Teachers (ASTA, founded in 1946), was imitated on all continents (ESTA in Europe, JASTA in Japan, AUSTA in Australia).
Amongst the players were a large assembly of Flesch's pupils including: Ida Haendel, Henryk Szeryng, Bronislav Gimpel, Max Rostal, Yfrah Neaman, Suzanne Rozsa Lovett and Robert Masters.
In 1984 she and Max Rostal received the Isaac Stern International Award for Services to Music, from the American String Teachers Association.
[61] Jamieson taught a number of leading violists and musicians including: Brian Masters (Sadlers Wells Opera Orch., LPO, LSO, Lancaster Ensemble (1969–71), MacNaghten Str.
Quartet);[62] Donald Maurice (Professor of Music at the New Zealand School of Music, violist with the New Zealand Piano Quartet; treasurer of the International Viola Society); Edward Vanderspar (Principal Viola of the London Symphony Orchestra);[63] Peter Martin (Composer, arranger); Philip Borg-Wheeler (violist, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra);[64] Tricia Maguire (founder with Hugh Maguire of the ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings); Philip Clark (assistant professor of viola and violin at Ithaca College, founding member of the Auckland String Quartet);[65] Rafael Todes (Member of the CBSO under Sir Simon Rattle; founder member of the Schidlof String Quartet; member of the Allegri Quartet);[66] Amanda Denley (viola professor at the Guildhall School of Music, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Aylwin String Quartet); Jonathan Brett Harrison (Erstwhile violist with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Conductor of the Basel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zurich Orchestra Society).
[68] During the Robert Masters Quartet tour of Australia in 1950, the critics made several references to her auburn hair, one commenting that Jamieson resembled the Hollywood star Greer Garson who was also born in 1904.
The name of the fund was adopted from the title of a demonstration lecture, developed by Jamieson, which covered many of the basics of violin and viola playing.