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Composer Residency 2025
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.
In this publication
Welcome to the 2025 Composer's Residency | 2 | Paul Mealor LVO, John Frederick Hudson, Thomas Kelly, Beibei Wang, Wendy Carrig
Schedule: 30 June to 2 July (arrival, beachcombing and composition sessions) | 3 | Wendy Carrig, Beibei Wang, Paul Mealor, John Frederick Hudson
Schedule: 3 to 6 July (composition sessions and festival launch) | 4 | Paul Mealor, John Frederick Hudson, Thomas Kelly, Daniel Lehan, The King's Singers, Marc Christmas, London Tango Quintet, BBC Singers, Britten Sinfonia, Jonathan Dove, James Aburn, Barry Mills
Schedule: 7 to 9 July (final review, score preparation, industry talks and rehearsals) | 5 | Paul Mealor, John Frederick Hudson, Edward Armitage, Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Daniel Cook, Changeling Theatre
Schedule: 10 to 13 July (industry talks, rehearsals, Music for Piano and Percussion premiere concert) | 6 | Sarah Armitage, Cyrill Ibrahim, Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, John Frederick Hudson, The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, Paul Mealor, JAM Sinfonia, Igor Yuzefovish, Kosmos Ensemble
Residency Composers | 7 | Sophia Hurst, Zsolt Balint, Nien Chin Chai
Residency Tutors | 9 | John Frederick Hudson, Paul Mealor LVO
Artists in Residence | 11 | Thomas Kelly, Beibei Wang
St Thomas Becket, Fairfield (photograph) | 13 | Susan Pilcher
JAM on the Marsh: the churches of Romney Marsh | 14 |
Thank you to our supporters | 14 | James Williams, Vanessa Latarche, Paul Mealor
