Festival programme

JAM on the Marsh 2022

Event

Dates

7 to 17 July 2022

Venue

Romney Marsh, Kent

Pages

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.

In this publication

Anna Tilbrook, Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, Michael Collins, Judith Bingham OBE, Paul Patterson, Nicholas Cleobury, Paul Mealor, London Mozart Players, The Holst Singers, Onyx Brass, VOCES8, Fibonacci Quartet, Elise Båtnes, Louisa Tuck, Ellie Fagg, Rachel Roberts, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Simon Hogan, JAM Sinfonia, London Tango Quintet, Changeling Theatre, Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra, Gawain Douglas, C.J. Driver, Timothy Jackson, Rebecca Lodge Birkebaek, Edward Armitage BEM

2022-07-07

Thank you to our Partners and Supporters | 2 |

Welcome from the Festival Curator | 4 | Anna Tilbrook

2022 Festival Events | 8 |

The Temple: Lecture and Poetry Recital | 10 | Gawain Douglas

Open Rehearsal with the Fibonacci Quartet | 11 | Fibonacci Quartet, Elise Båtnes, Ellie Fagg, Rachel Roberts, Louisa Tuck

Still Further: Poetry Recital | 12 | C.J. Driver

The Importance of Being Earnest | 13 | Changeling Theatre, Robert Forknall

Short Film Competition | 15 | Screen South

Mendelssohn and Shostakovich | 16 | Fibonacci Quartet, Elise Båtnes, Ellie Fagg, Rachel Roberts, Louisa Tuck, Anna Tilbrook

Clara and Clarke | 19 | Elise Båtnes, Louisa Tuck, Anna Tilbrook

Choral Composition Workshop and Masterclass Series Welcome | 21 | VOCES8, Paul Mealor, Christopher Churcher, Tara Creme, Henrik Dahlgren, Jack Ledger-Dowse, George Parris, Chris Williams

VOCES8: Stardust | 23 | VOCES8, Barnaby Smith, Taylor Scott Davis, Jonathan Dove, Paul Mealor

Duo for Violin and Cello | 25 | Elise Båtnes, Louisa Tuck

Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra | 27 | Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra, Tom Vafidis

Opening Night: Brookland and St Nicholas Primary Schools with Onyx Brass | 28 | Timothy Jackson, Onyx Brass, Rebecca Lodge Birkebaek

Czech Mate | 31 | Fibonacci Quartet, Anna Tilbrook

Façade | 33 | Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, JAM Sinfonia, Anna Tilbrook, William Walton, Edith Sitwell

London Mozart Players with Michael Collins | 44 | London Mozart Players, Michael Collins, Ruth Rogers, Elizabeth Bass, Judith Bingham OBE

Paul Patterson's The Fifth Continent | 47 | The Holst Singers, Onyx Brass, Nicholas Cleobury, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Simon Hogan, Paul Patterson, Ben Kaye

London Tango Quintet | 52 | London Tango Quintet, Craig Ogden, Miloš Milivojević, David Gordon, Richard Pryce, David Juritz

Exhibition: f_off_cancer | 55 | Clare Cosson

Exhibition: Abstract | 57 | John Ballard

Exhibition: Earth from Space | 59 | Penny Graham

Exhibition: Sculpture | 61 | Angela C Smith

Exhibition: Voix Celestes | 63 | Maureen Jordan

Exhibition: Retrospective Series | 65 | Carsten Birkebaek, Tristan Fewings, Amos Miller, Susan Pilcher, Justin Sutcliffe

The Marsh Churches' Mosaics Trail | 67 | Yolanda Houston, Didier Rochard

Venue Guide | 68 |

The JAM Team and History of JAM on the Marsh | 69 | Paul Mealor, Edward Armitage BEM, Sarah Armitage, John Frederick Hudson, Claudia Ott, James Aburn

JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust)