The John Armitage Memorial Trust (JAM)
JAM is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, that was set up to nurture, promote & perfrom new music in the UK.
JAM, founded in 2000, 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.
Composers commissioned by JAM include: Judith Bingham, Jonathan Dove, Adam Gorb, Timothy Jackson, John McCabe, Paul Patterson and for 2008 Gabriel Jackson and 2009 Joe Duddell.
"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.
Special Concert Announced: 3rd December 2008 @ 7.30pm
JAM will remember John Armitage at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster on 3rd December, exactly 10 years after he died. The concert will be a celebration of his vision; that of promoting and supporting new music in the UK. JAM will feature 3 of its recent commissions: Judith Bingham's award-winning My Heart Strangely Warm'd(2006), Paul Patterson's The Fifth Continent(2005) and Gabriel Jackson's The Spacious Firmament(2008), along with a world premiere by Jackson written for this unique occasion. Performers will include Nicholas Cleobury, Onyx Brass, Daniel Cook (organ) and The Chapel Choir of selwyn College, Cambridge.
"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
JAM's 2008/9 Call for Music
JAM's 08/09 Call for Music is now open. Please see the Submit Music section of the website for full details.
The closing date for the current Call for Music is Monday 3rd November 2008.
Recent concerts have been performed at:
Canterbury Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral, King'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, and St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge.
"High praises then for all concerned" Hexham Courant July 2006