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JAM on the Marsh 2025
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.
In this publication
Welcome from the Artistic Director | 5 | John Frederick Hudson
Festival Overview from the Festival Curator | 6 | Edward Armitage BEM, Paul Mealor, BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin, Britten Sinfonia, The King's Singers, Onyx Brass, Jonathan Dove, Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Daniel Cook, Changeling Theatre
2025 Festival Guide | 8 |
Festival Launch | 11 | Edward Armitage BEM, Paul Mealor
London Tango Quintet | 12 | London Tango Quintet, David Juritz, Craig Ogden, Miloš Milivojević, David Gordon, Richard Pryce, Astor Piazzolla
Mealor @50: The Light of Paradise | 14 | BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Paul Mealor, Marc Christmas
La Belle Époque I | 17 | Thomas Kelly, Debussy, Franck, Poulenc, Satie, Ravel
Printmaking Workshop | 18 | Jillian Bain Christie
Storytelling through Collage | 19 | Wendy Carrig
Mealor @50: Symphony No.2 with Britten Sinfonia | 20 | Britten Sinfonia, Zoë Beyers, Imogen Whitehead, John Frederick Hudson, Jonathan Dove, Lili Boulanger, Barry Mills, James Aburn, Erik Satie, Paul Mealor
Late Night Music with Jonathan Dove | 22 | Jonathan Dove
The King's Singers | 24 | The King's Singers, Patrick Dunachie, Edward Button, Julian Gregory, Christopher Bruerton, Nick Ashby, Piers Connor Kennedy, Paul Mealor, John McCabe, Daniel Lehan
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire | 27 | Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Foster, Benedict Andrews, Tennessee Williams
Art Tour: Drawn, Torn, Glued | 29 | Daniel Lehan
La Belle Époque II | 30 | Daniel Cook, César Franck, Eugène Gigout, Charles-Marie Widor, Joseph Bonnet, Louis Vierne
Festival Wine Tasting with Matthew Jukes | 33 | Matthew Jukes
Changeling Theatre: Twelfth Night | 35 | Changeling Theatre, Robert Forknall, Jack Medlin, Meg Walls, Ema Cavolli, Jonathon Nielsen-Keen, Bryony Maguire
Cabaret: Britten, Berlin and Broadway | 37 | Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, John Frederick Hudson, Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, John Kander, Fred Ebb
Mealor @50: The Farthest Shore | 38 | The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Sarah MacDonald, Onyx Brass, Robin Walker, Claire Seaton, Philip Tebb, Alex Wright, Paul Mealor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dani Howard, Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth Poston, Steve Richer
Music for Piano and Percussion: Composers' Residency Concert | 40 | Beibei Wang, Thomas Kelly, Zsolt Balint, Nien Chin Chai, Sophia Hurst, Paul Mealor, John Frederick Hudson, Wendy Carrig
Shaker Loops: JAM Sinfonia | 43 | Igor Yuzefovich, Joonas Pekonen, Yuri Zhislin, Matthias Wiesner, Tim Hugh, Alba Merchant, Harry Atkinson, Richard Strauss, Marisse Cato, John Adams
Kosmos Ensemble | 44 | Kosmos Ensemble, Harriet Mackenzie, Meg Hamilton, Miloš Milivojević
Festival Farewell | 47 |
Exhibition: The Woman Who Fell to Earth | 48 | Wendy Carrig
Exhibition: Dusk Chorus | 51 | Marc Christmas
Exhibition: Drawn, Torn, Glued | 52 | Daniel Lehan
Biographies | 54 | James Aburn, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, BBC Singers, Zoë Beyers, Britten Sinfonia, Marisse Cato, Nien Chin Chai, Changeling Theatre, Marc Christmas, Daniel Cook, Jonathan Dove, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, John Frederick Hudson, Sofi Jeannin, Thomas Kelly, The King's Singers, Kosmos Ensemble, Daniel Lehan, London Tango Quintet, Paul Mealor, Sarah MacDonald, Steve Richer, Claire Seaton, Robin Walker, Beibei Wang, Imogen Whitehead, Igor Yuzefovich
How to Book and Festival Shuttle Bus | 62 |
History of JAM | 65 | John Armitage, Edward Armitage, Paul Patterson, Ben Kaye, Judith Bingham, Paul Mealor, Daniel Cook, Michael Bawtree, Anna Tilbrook, Nicholas Cleobury
JAM Commissions 2002 to 2025 | 66 | Timothy Jackson, Jonathan Dove, John McCabe, Paul Patterson, Judith Bingham, Paul Mealor, Tarik O'Regan, Thea Musgrave, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Joseph Phibbs, Marisse Cato, Steve Richer, Stephen McNeff
Supporters and Partners | 68 |
Creative Team and Trustees | 70 | Paul Mealor LVO, John Frederick Hudson, Edward Armitage BEM, Sarah Armitage, Karen Gambrell, James Aburn, Anthony White, Charles Cochrane, Timothy Jackson, Patricia Rolfe
Photography Credits | 71 | Daniel Jaems, Tristan Fewings, Wendy Carrig, Susan Pilcher, Justin Sutcliffe
