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Music of our Time: JAM's exploration of new music for choir, brass quintet and organ returns to St Bridge's Church
Onyx Brass at JAM's Music of our Time at St Bride's Church, Fleet StreetJAM's Music of our Time returns to St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on Wednesday 20 March 2024, with a programme of new works for choir, brass quintet and organ. The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Onyx Brass and Simon Hogan (organ), conducted by Michael Bawtree will be performing nine works, three world premieres and six London premieres.The concert revisits JAM’s 2010 commission by Tarik O’Regan, The Night’s Untruth which explores the use of sleep as a metaphor via excerpts from poems written in the 17th to 20th centuries. There is also the world premiere of a JAM commission by Isabelle Ryder, participant of the Composers’ Residency 2023. Illumination, for organ and two trumpets, pays homage to St Brigid (St Bride) of Kildare, patron saint of St Bride’s Church.Having received over 200 entries to its 2023 Call for Music, JAM has […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
The recently rebuilt Norwich Cathedral organ (Photo: Bill Smith / Norwich Cathedral)Organ Re-born! Norwich Cathedral11-26 November 2023, reviewed by Tony CooperAfter undergoing a major refit, every stop of Norwich Cathedral’s fine organ (one of the largest pipe organs in the country) can be gloriously heard to maximum effect. Norwich Cathedral has been in celebratory mood of late with its Organ Re-born! mini-concert series featuring a couple of concerts together with a celebrity organ recital with the series culminating with Festal Evensong. The first concert featured Norwich Cathedral Chamber Choir and Onyx Brass conducted by Ashley Grote accompanied by organist, David Dunnett. A visit by the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Chalmers featured special guest conductor/presenter, Ed Balls, accompanied by organist Ashley Grote. Organ Re-born! continued with the internationally-renowned organist Thomas Trotter giving the inaugural recital while the grand festivities concluded with Festal Evensong sung by Norwich Cathedral Choir under Ashley Grote […]
2022-05-24 12:35:23
Three birthday celebrations & more: Anna Tilbrook curates this year's JAM on the Marsh
Paul Patterson whose 75th birthday is celebrated at this year's JAM on the Marsh JAM on the Marsh is back with a full festival of live events in the historic churches of Romney Marsh from 7 to 17 July 2022. Pianist Anna Tilbrook has curated her second JAM on the Marsh festival and performers include Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, leaders from the Oslo Philharmonic, VOCES8, Michael Collins with London Mozart Players and the London Tango Quintet.The festival is celebrating composer Paul Patterson's 75th birthday by performing his The Fifth Continent, a JAM commission from 2005 that evokes the dramatic 20-mile coastal stretch of Romney Marsh. The work is being performed by the Holst Singers, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo), Onyx Brass and Simon Hogan (organ). Other birthdays celebrated include a double celebration for composer Judith Bingham's 70th and clarinettist Michael Collins' 60th, when Collins performs Bingham's Concerto for Clarinet with the London Mozart Players in a concert […]
2022-03-04 13:25:30
St Bride's Church JAM's Music of Our Time concert at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street is usually an eagerly awaited annual event. Of course, the last two had to be cancelled so on Wednesday 23 March 2022, JAM presents its Music of Our Time for the first time since 2019. The event, featuring the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Onyx Brass, Simon Hogan (organ), Jane Shearsmith (actor) and Michael Bawtree (conductor), will include seven premieres. Since JAM’s founding in 2000, each Autumn it runs a nationwide Call for Music, works written for choir, brass quintet and organ, for performance at its season launch Music of Our Time concert, in London each March. This year the concert includes suuccessful submissions to JAM’s 2019 Call for Music by composers William Harmer, Christopher Best, Richard Peat, Kathryn Rose, and Philip Lancaster, plus a brass quintet world premiere by Janet […]