Bring home JAM on the Marsh
From 2-15 September JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL gives access to highlights from this year’s festival, featuring artists from the international stage. All are available to watch on our website for free.
Our playlist includes 13 individual pieces from live concerts and five exhibitions giving you the opportunity to get a taste of or relive some of the outstanding events of Nicholas Cleobury’s second festival.
“A banquet of absolutely first-class events which we loved from start to finish. JAM really is a top-class festival… up there with the best in the country.”
Watch the newly established JAM Festival Orchestra, which united highly talented community players aged 9-81 with members of the London Mozart Players. This orchestra will amaze you with compelling performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No 1, Warlock’s Capriol Suite and Vaughan Williams’ iconic The Lark Ascending, with the gifted soloist, Aki Blendis (BBC Young Musician finalist).
“The Festival Orchestra seamlessly blended amateur and professional musicians alike.”
Discover four short new operas, composed by the participants of JAM’s second Composers’ Residency: Toby Anderson (The Canonization of Derek Jarman), Sam Buttler (Caravaggio), Roseanna Dunn (War Requiem) and Jago Thornton (Wittgenstein). All set ingenious libretti by Grahame Davies, depicting the life of the late, great film director and artist, Derek Jarman. The operas were brought to life by four remarkable young singers from the Royal College of Music (Angelina Dorlin-Barlow, James Emerson, Benedict Munden and Ceferina Penny) and brilliant pianist Travis Bloom, who worked with the singers in the lead up to the world premieres and helped refine the operas.
“Imaginative operas delivered by excellent young performers.”
Listen to performances by our longstanding JAM partner, the outstanding London Mozart Players, who delight with Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, Delius Two Aquarelles, Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings and the world premiere of Jago Thornton’s President’s Commission Murmurations:
“Murmurations are patterns formed by flocks of birds: they appear like huge, fluid shapes, ebbing and pulsating with mysterious consciousness. My piece is inspired by experiencing both murmurations from afar and by the eerie power of a flock passing directly overhead.”
Experience the JAM Sinfonia, made up of some of the finest players in the UK and led by BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Igor Yuzefovich. They perform Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No 4 and Cameron Biles-Liddell’s Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra, featuring soloist Daniel Shao (flute).
“Cameron Biles-Liddell's Flute Concerto in the final concert exceeded my expectations.”
Take a look at the wonderful festival exhibitions, with Al Reffel’s Cyanotype Waves, John Ballard’s Triptych of Stones, James Norton’s Marshlands, Paulo Gnecco’s Blue and Hide and Seek and Michelle Keegan’s Voices in the Mirrors.
JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL offers a snapshot of our 11th festival for music and art lovers alike; from world premieres of exciting orchestral works and short operas to artworks depicting the man-made and natural landscape, to performances of much loved music.
JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL highlights our community engagement and our passion to nurture composers, performers and artists of our time.
Our online playlist provides bite-sized videos that can be easily accessed, giving everyone the opportunity to experience World Class, Up Close, at home.
The videos and exhibitions are free to view, but we would be grateful if you could make a donation to support JAM’s mission to nurture arts and education.
