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The John Armitage Memorial Trust (JAM)

JAM is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, that was set up to nurture, promote & perform new music in the UK.

Founded in 2000, JAM has an annual ‘call for music’, during which anyone, of any age can submit music. From these submissions & an annual commission, JAM creates a concert series that it tours round the UK.

"...Last night’s anniversary concert, conducted expertly by Nicholas Cleobury, featured four JAM commissions and two works submitted to the Trust... The second part of a double commission from Gabriel Jackson, spanning eight months, Yet we who Neither Burn nor Shine was well worth waiting for..." The Evening Standard

JAM's July dates:

Breaking through the Silence
Gala concert with English PEN
July 9th  St. Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey  7.30

Michael Tippett  Five Negro Spirituals
Adam Gorb  Thoughts Scribbled on a Blank Wall 
                      JAM commission 2007
Timothy Jackson  No Answer 
                                JAM commission 2002
Nicholas Cleobury conducts:
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Onyx Brass
Simon Hogan, organ
Claire Seaton, soprano
Matthew Long, tenor
Giles Underwood, bass 
+ special guests:
Alexander Armstrong, Jo Brand, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Ruth Padel & Reece Shearsmith
Tickets: £20-15
020 7713 0023 or www.englishpen.org/events

The Fifth Continent
July 11th  St. Nicholas Church, New Romney, Kent  7.30

Paul Patterson  The Fifth Continent  JAM commission 2005
Michael Tippett  Five Negro Spirituals
Edward Elgar  Great is the Lord
Ralph Vaughan Williams  Valiant for Truth
Timothy Jackson  Anything But
James Maynard  Fanfare  
Nicholas Cleobury conducts:
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Onyx Brass
Simon Hogan, organ
Andrew Radley, counter tenor
Tickets: £10
01797 366959 or info@jamconcert.org
JAM's 2009 concerts are supported by:
PRS Foundation
Britten-Pears Foundation
The Radcliffe Trust  
JAM has enabled and performed more than forty new works since 2002.

JAM works regularly with world-class musicians and singers such as the BBC Singers, Nicholas Cleobury, Stephen Layton, Onyx Brass and many more.

"An evocative performance to remember. All in all this was a very impressive musical event. The JAM initiative deserves to be supported." Edinburgh Evening News.

Composers commissioned by JAM include: Judith Bingham, Jonathan Dove, Adam Gorb, Gabriel Jackson, Timothy Jackson, John McCabe, Paul Patterson and for 2009, Steve Martland.

JAM's 2008/9 Call for Music is now closed

"JAM has collected together and commissioned lots of really enjoyable, serious, listenable music for voices & brass, just like Gabrielli 400 years ago. JAM has managed to wisely choose and commission great new music & supports the finest performances of it on a scale that no other group is doing in the UK..." Hotbrass.com

Recent concerts have been performed at:
Canterbury Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge, St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Hexham Abbey, St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge and All Saints Church, Lydd.

"High praises then for all concerned" Hexham Courant