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JAM on the Marsh 2024
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.
In this publication
Welcome from the Festival Curator | 5 | Nicholas Cleobury
New Horizons | 8 | Edward Armitage, John Frederick Hudson, Nicholas Cleobury
2024 Festival Events | 10 |
Celebrating Edith Nesbit and The Railway Children | 12 | Edith Nesbit Society, Jenny Agutter
Festival Launch | 14 | Paul Mealor, Nicholas Cleobury, Edward Armitage
A New Partnership | 15 | Simpsons Wine Estate, Jukes Cordialities
Present Laughter | 17 | Changeling Theatre, Noël Coward, Robert Forknall
Meet the Composers | 19 | John Frederick Hudson, Jago Thornton, Esme Lloyd, Edward Armitage
From Holst to Hudson | 20 | Mark Padmore CBE, Ben Goldscheider, London Mozart Players, Simon Blendis, John Frederick Hudson, Jago Thornton
12 Dragonetti Waltzes | 25 | Rosie Moon
1934: A Changing Sound World | 26 | Anna Tilbrook, David Campbell, Madeleine Mitchell, James Aburn
A Choral Feast | 29 | Stephen Layton MBE, Holst Singers, Jeremy Cole, Marisse Cato, Steve Richer, Arvo Pärt
An Afternoon in Vienna | 35 | Nicholas Cleobury, JAM Sinfonia, Simon Blendis, Dan Shao, Anna Tilbrook, Rosie Moon
Community Singing | 37 | Rebecca Lodge Birkebæk, Onyx Brass, The Sunflower Singers, Bob Chilcott
The Goldberg Variations | 39 | Stephen Farr
Derek Jarman Day: Prospect Cottage, War Requiem and Jarman | 40 | Derek Jarman, Mark Farrelly, Tilda Swinton
Henry V | 45 | Changeling Theatre
JAM Festival Orchestra | 47 | Michael Bawtree, Aki Blendis, London Mozart Players, Ruth Rogers
The Blendis Trio | 49 | Simon Blendis, Saoko Blendis, Aki Blendis
Four Short Operas | 51 | Toby Anderson, Sam Buttler, Roseanna Dunn, Jago Thornton, Grahame Davies, Ceferina Penny, Angelina Dorin-Barlow, Benedict Munden, James Emerson, Travis Bloom
Fauré Requiem | 53 | David Newsholme, Canterbury Cathedral Choir, London Mozart Players, Jamie Rogers, Jonathan Arnold, Grahame Davies, Gabriel Jackson, Janet Wheeler, Jack Oades
Mahler 4 | 57 | Nicholas Cleobury, JAM Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shave, Felicitas Wrede, Daniel Shao, Cameron Biles-Liddell
Festival Farewell | 59 | Nicholas Cleobury, Edward Armitage
Exhibitions | 61 | Michelle Keegan, James Norton, Al Reffel, Paulo Gnecco, John Ballard
Artistic Biographies | 70 | Toby Anderson, Rebecca Lodge Birkebæk, Sam Buttler, Travis Bloom, David Campbell, Nicholas Cleobury, Grahame Davies CVO, Roseanna Dunn, Stephen Farr, Ben Goldscheider, John Frederick Hudson, Stephen Layton, Madeleine Mitchell, Benedict Munden, Onyx Brass, Mark Padmore CBE, Jamie Rogers, Daniel Shao, Jacqueline Shave, Anna Tilbrook, Felicitas Wrede
How to Book and Festival Shuttle Bus | 78 |
History of JAM on the Marsh | 81 | John Armitage, Edward Armitage, Paul Patterson, Ben Kaye
The JAM Team | 82 | Paul Mealor LVO, Nicholas Cleobury, Edward Armitage BEM, Sarah Armitage, John Frederick Hudson, Claudia Ott
JAM Commissions | 83 | John Frederick Hudson, Jago Thornton, Isabelle Ryder, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Richard Peat, Paul Mealor
Supporters and Partners | 84 |
