Creating a legacy of new music
JAM is internationally recognised as a creative, dynamic, forward-thinking arts organisation, with new music at its core.
It embraces artistic risk-taking through contemporary innovation, exploration, collaboration and creation, that intentionally integrates high-quality performances and education.
Celebrating 22 years, JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust) has commissioned an immense number of works from some of the most important composer in the UK, influencing the classical music repertoire in the UK and around the world.
JAM regularly collaborates with some of the most important composers, performers and other like-minded organisations: BBC Singers, London Mozart Players, Onyx Brass and BBC Radio 3.
JAM’s commissioning, annual Call for Music and its Music of Our Time concert in March remain at the heart of our work. Since 2000, JAM has given performances of 150 new pieces of music, either submitted to or commissioned by the charity. The list of names that we have commissioned is a who’s who of British composers of our day and many of these pieces have been broadcast by the BBC, some have won awards such as the British Composer Awards and many have been performed across the UK and abroad, including the US, New Zealand, Canada and France.
JAM and JAM on the Marsh are well known and respected by composers, artists, venues, funders and media alike, especially for their collaborations within the UK and further afield, such as in the US and Canada.
Timeline of JAM Commissions
Judith Bingham: Clarinet Concerto
Jack Oades: Between the Stormclouds and the Sea
Paul Mealor: Piano Concerto
Daniel Saleeb: Soliloquy
Rory Boyle: Songs from the Marshes
Tom Harrold: Voices of Vimy
Paul Mealor: Shadows of War
Thomas LaVoy: O Great Beyond
Thea Musgrave: Voices of our Ancestors
Giles Swayne: Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
Paul Mealor: The Farthest Shore
Julian Phillips: Body of Water
Philip Cashian: All Things Wear Silence
Paul Mealor: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal