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The programme for The Lost Boy, a new chamber opera by composer Jago Thornton and librettist Anastasia Bruce-Jones, commissioned by JAM and toured to St Asaph, Rotherhithe and Romney Marsh in September 2026. Set in a fishing village in 1984 and 1985, with the synopsis, the full libretto and biographies of the cast and creative team.

The full programme for the 13th JAM on the Marsh, 8 to 12 July 2026, curated by Edward Armitage BEM. Every concert, exhibition and community event across Romney Marsh, from Changeling Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing and Alexander Armstrong in The Roaring 20s to Black Dyke Band, Fenella Humphreys, the JAM Sinfonia and the world premieres of Into the Bellows, with biographies, booking details and how to get there.

The booklet for JAM's May 2026 composer residency: a week at Littlestone on the Kent coast where Zhenyan Li, Noah Max and George W. Parris wrote new fifteen-minute works for solo accordion with Ryan Corbett, mentored by lead tutor Paul Mealor LVO and John Frederick Hudson. Includes the welcome, composer and mentor profiles, the day-by-day schedule and practical notes for the week.

The booklet for JAM's April 2026 composer intensive: a residential weekend on the Kent coast where Elif Karlidag, Margarida Gonçalves and Will Frampton wrote new five-minute works for solo piano alongside pianist Thomas Kelly. Includes the welcome from Artistic Director John Frederick Hudson, composer and artist profiles, the weekend schedule and practical notes for those taking part.

The programme for Music of Our Time 2026 at St Bride's, Fleet Street: world and London premieres from the 2025 Call for Music by Janet Wheeler, Aditya Sharma, Steve Richer, Brian Inglis, Edmund Jolliffe and Stef Conner, alongside Paul Mealor's A Humble Light and Jack Oades's Between the Stormclouds and the Sea. Performed by the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Sarah MacDonald, Onyx Brass, Simon Hogan, Sam Madden and Owen Gunnell, with programme notes, texts and biographies.

JAM's Year in Review 2025 marks the charity's 25th anniversary, a year of 12 concerts, 7 free events, 3 exhibitions, 3 theatre performances and a Composer Residency, from Music of Our Time on 26 March to JAM on the Marsh, 3 to 13 July, curated by Edward Armitage BEM around Mealor @50 and The Belle Epoque. Inside are reports on the festival, residency, community projects, JAM Digital and JAM Virtual, the list of JAM commissions since 2002, 2026 season highlights and the supporters.

The programme for JAM on the Marsh 2025, the twelfth festival on Romney Marsh, Kent, from 3 to 13 July, curated by Edward Armitage BEM and celebrating Paul Mealor at 50 with the BBC Singers, Britten Sinfonia, The King's Singers and the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College. Inside are notes for every event, including eight world premieres, La Belle Époque recitals by Thomas Kelly and Daniel Cook, exhibitions by Wendy Carrig, Marc Christmas and Daniel Lehan, biographies and the JAM commissions list.

Booklet for the 2025 JAM Composer's Residency on Romney Marsh, 1 to 12 July, in which three emerging composers, Sophia Hurst, Zsolt Balint and Nien Chin Chai, wrote new works for piano and percussion under Paul Mealor LVO and John Frederick Hudson, with Artists in Residence Thomas Kelly and Beibei Wang. Inside are the welcome, a day by day schedule of composition sessions, beachcombing with photographer Wendy Carrig, industry talks, rehearsals and festival concerts, composer and tutor profiles, a note on the Marsh churches and thanks to supporters.

Programme for JAM's 25th anniversary concert, Music of Our Time, at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on 26 March 2025, launching the JAM @25 season with the world premiere of Joseph Phibbs's Seven Songs of Nature alongside Timothy Jackson's No Answer and Paul Mealor's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. Inside are welcomes from John Frederick Hudson and Edward Armitage BEM, a chronology of all 45 JAM commissions, programme notes, texts, performer biographies, a JAM on the Marsh preview and supporter lists.

JAM's 2024 Year in Review looks back on a season of 13 concerts and 22 works by living composers, from Music of Our Time at St Bride's Church to JAM on the Marsh (4 to 14 July) under Festival Curator Nicholas Cleobury, with premieres by John Frederick Hudson and Jago Thornton and the second Composers' Residency. Inside are Edward Armitage BEM's report, features on community projects, JAM VIRTUAL and commissions, a preview of the 25th anniversary in 2025, the commissions list and supporters.

Programme for JAM on the Marsh 2024, the eleventh festival season, 4 to 14 July across Romney Marsh, Kent, and Nicholas Cleobury's final year as curator, with world premieres by John Frederick Hudson and Jago Thornton, Stephen Layton and the Holst Singers, the Fauré Requiem with Canterbury Cathedral Choir and a closing Mahler 4. Inside are welcomes from Cleobury and Edward Armitage, the event diary, concert programmes and notes, Derek Jarman Day, four short operas from the Composers' Residency, exhibitions, biographies and supporters.

This booklet accompanies the 2024 Composers' Residency at JAM on the Marsh, 1 to 14 July 2024, in which four composers write short operas on Derek Jarman's life to libretti by Grahame Davies CVO, working partly at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness. Inside are the welcome, the two-week schedule and profiles of composers Toby Anderson, Sam Buttler, Roseanna Dunn and Jago Thornton, tutors including Paul Mealor LVO, Jonathan Dove CBE and Shirley Thompson OBE, Royal College of Music singers and pianist Travis Bloom.

Programme for Music of Our Time 2024, JAM's season opening concert at St Bride's Church, London, presenting ten works including the premiere of Isabelle Ryder's President's Commission Illumination and Tarik O'Regan's 2010 JAM commission The Night's Untruth, performed by Selwyn College Chapel Choir, Onyx Brass, Simon Hogan and Michael Bawtree. Inside are welcomes from Paul Mealor and Edward Armitage, a preview of JAM on the Marsh 2024 under Nicholas Cleobury, programme notes, texts and composer biographies, and details of the Writing for Opera residency.

JAM's Year in Review 2023 covers a season that opened with Music of Our Time at St Bride's Church, took in the tenth anniversary JAM on the Marsh from 4 to 16 July, Nicholas Cleobury's first as Festival Curator, and closed with JAM on the Marsh VIRTUAL in September. Inside are reports on the Masterclass Series with the Sacconi Quartet, Richard Peat's oratorio The Sky Engine, premieres by Tara Creme and Mark-Anthony Turnage, plans for 2024 and JAM's trustees, team and supporters.

Programme for JAM on the Marsh 2023, the multi-arts festival on Romney Marsh, Kent, from 4 to 16 July, curated by conductor Nicholas Cleobury and headlined by the world premiere of Richard Peat and Timothy Knapman's community oratorio The Sky Engine with the London Mozart Players. Inside are notes and biographies for every event, including A Day in Paris, the Delaware Choral Scholars, Nicky Spence and Oliver Soden celebrating Noël Coward, Changeling Theatre, four exhibitions and the first composer residency.

Booklet for JAM's first in-residence summer school for composers, held during JAM on the Marsh 2023 from 4 to 16 July on Romney Marsh, Kent, with four composers writing for the Sacconi Quartet under tutors Paul Mealor, Gabriel Jackson and John Frederick Hudson, and a £500 commission prize for performance in 2024. Inside are the course outline, dates, tutor list and a day by day timetable of composition sessions, string intensives, meet the artist events and festival concerts.

Programme for Music of Our Time 2023 at St Bride's Church, London on Tuesday 21 March, featuring eight premieres including Tara Creme's President's Commission The Song I Came to Sing and Mark-Anthony Turnage's ONYX 30 for Onyx Brass's 30th anniversary. Inside are welcomes from Paul Mealor and Edward Armitage BEM, a preview of JAM on the Marsh 2023 under curator Nicholas Cleobury, notes and texts for each work, and biographies of Selwyn College Chapel Choir, Sarah MacDonald, Michael Bawtree and Simon Hogan.

JAM's Year in Review 2022 celebrates the first full programme of live events since 2019, from Music of Our Time at St Bride's in March to the Masterclass Series concert with the VOCES8 Scholars on 12 October, and Anna Tilbrook's final JAM on the Marsh as Festival Curator. Inside are Sarah MacDonald's President's Award, commissions for Tara Creme and Christopher Churcher, education work with Rebecca Lodge, Nicholas Cleobury's appointment as Festival Curator, plans for The Sky Engine and a list of supporters.

Programme for JAM's 2022 Masterclass Series concert at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on 12 October 2022, sung by the VOCES8 Scholars, with six world premieres by emerging composers workshopped with VOCES8 and Paul Mealor alongside Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons and Croce. Inside are welcomes from Edward Armitage BEM and Paul Mealor, the running order, notes and texts for every work, composer biographies, the presentation of the President's Commission and JAM's supporters.

Programme for JAM on the Marsh 2022, the multi-arts festival on Romney Marsh, Kent, from 7 to 17 July, curated by Anna Tilbrook, with the world premiere of Judith Bingham's Concerto for Clarinet for Michael Collins, Walton's Façade with Lucy Crowe and James Gilchrist, and Paul Patterson's The Fifth Continent with the Holst Singers under Nicholas Cleobury. Inside are concert programmes and notes, song texts, artist biographies, the VOCES8 composition workshop, education projects, exhibitions and a history of the festival.

Programme for JAM's Music of Our Time concert on 23 March 2022 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, its first since 2019, with six world premieres including Janet Wheeler's Up in the Morning Early, the first President's Commission. Inside are notes and texts for each work, Grahame Davies' poems for Jack Oades' Between the Stormclouds and the Sea, a tribute to new President Paul Mealor and biographies of Selwyn College Chapel Choir, Onyx Brass and Michael Bawtree.

JAM's Year in Review for 2021, published in autumn 2021, looks back on a year in which JAM on the Marsh returned live from 8 to 18 July under new Festival Curator Anna Tilbrook, and the first Masterclass Series with Onyx Brass and Francesca Massey culminated in six world premieres at St Bride's. Inside are President Paul Mealor's welcome, festival highlights with Lesley Garrett and Canterbury Cathedral Choir, the free JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL release, plans for 2022 and the supporters list.

Programme for JAM's Celebration Concert at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on 19 October 2021, in which Onyx Brass and organist Francesca Massey gave six world premieres from the first Masterclass Series led by Paul Mealor, who presented the inaugural President's Commission. Inside are welcomes from Edward Armitage and Paul Mealor, an introduction to the Masterclass Series, notes and biographies for Christopher Cook, David Ho-yi Chan, Angela Slater, John Sturt, Graham Harris and Janet Wheeler, artist biographies and the JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL listings.

The programme book for JAM on the Marsh 2021, the eighth festival season and JAM's first live events since 2019, held from 8 to 18 July on Romney Marsh under new Festival Curator Anna Tilbrook, with Lesley Garrett CBE, Michael Collins, James Gilchrist, the London Mozart Players and the world premiere of Jack Oades's Between the Stormclouds and the Sea. Inside are welcomes from Anna Tilbrook and Edward Armitage, concert programmes with notes and artist biographies, the Open Composition Workshop and seven free exhibitions.

This is the programme for JAM on the Marsh 2019, the sixth festival and the first curated by Michael Bawtree, held from 4 to 14 July on Romney Marsh, Kent, with The King's Singers, London Mozart Players, Paul Mealor's The Farthest Shore and world premieres by Daniel Saleeb and James Aburn. Inside are event pages and programme notes, Eric Crees's essay on Debussy, Joplin and ragtime, and biographies of the performers including Onyx Brass, Selwyn College Chapel Choir and Yuanfan Yang.

The programme for JAM on the Marsh 2018, the fifth multi-arts festival on Romney Marsh from 5 to 15 July, curated for his final year by Daniel Cook, with the BBC Singers premiering Rory Boyle's Songs from the Marshes and the London Mozart Players and Mousai Singers in Fauré's Requiem. Inside are welcomes from Edward Armitage and Daniel Cook, notes on every concert, exhibition, theatre and poetry event, from VOCES8 to Kate Walters' residency, and biographies of the musicians.

The programme book for JAM on the Marsh 2017, held from 6 to 16 July across Romney Marsh, Kent, Daniel Cook's first festival as curator, framed by the Mousai Singers on opening night and the BBC Singers with cellist Jamie Walton premiering Voices of Vimy by Tom Harrold and Stuart Beatch. Inside are programme notes for every concert, including the London Mozart Players, Sounds Baroque and Anita Strevens in all six Bach Cello Suites, plus the exhibitions, Changeling Theatre's Hamlet, Children's Sunday and biographies.

The programme for JAM on the Marsh 2016 on Romney Marsh, Kent, 7 to 17 July, Paul Mealor's final festival as Curator, with the BBC Singers under Nicholas Cleobury in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast, premieres by Mealor and Thomas LaVoy, and the London Mozart Players marking the Somme centenary. Inside are welcomes from Edward Armitage and Paul Mealor, an event diary, programme notes for the Sacconi Quartet, Sounds Baroque's Casanova and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, and biographies of the musicians.

Programme for JAM on the Marsh 2015, across Romney Marsh, Kent, from 9 to 19 July, the first festival curated by Paul Mealor, with the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge under Nicholas Cleobury premiering Thea Musgrave's festival commission The Voices of Our Ancestors, alongside Sounds Baroque, Daniel Cook and the Mousai Singers. Inside are Mealor's welcome, the event diary, programme notes for every concert, exhibitions by Ruth Parkinson and Justin Sutcliffe, Sabotage Theatre's Owlers, poetry from Jonty Driver and Gawain Douglas, biographies and supporters.

The programme for the first JAM on the Marsh, a multi-arts festival on Romney Marsh, Kent, from 11 to 20 July 2014, the final year of Judith Bingham as Curator before Paul Mealor takes over, with new commissions from Bingham and Giles Swayne, the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College with Dame Janet Suzman, and Red Note Ensemble. Inside are Edward Armitage's welcome, programme notes for every concert and event, biographies of the musicians and the list of supporters.