JAM on the Marsh Archive

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2022 Festival concerts

Date & timePerformersProgramme
Thursday 7 July, 3.00-4.00pmOpen rehearsal with Fibonacci Quartet
Friday 8 July, 7.00pmFibonacci Quartet with Elise Batnes (violin), Ellie Fagg (violin), Louisa Tuck (cello), Rachel Roberts (viola) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57
Mendelssohn – Octet in E flat major Op 20
Saturday 9 July, 2.00-5.00pmChoral composition workshop with VOCES 8 and Paul Mealor
Saturday 9 July, 7.00pmVOCES8“Stardust” – choral music celebration
Monday 11 July, 7.00pmAshford Youth Jazz Orchestra
Thursday 14 July, 7.00pmLucy Crowe (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), JAM Sinfonia & Anna TilbrookWalton – Façade ✫ A song for the Lord Mayor’s Table
Saturday 16 July, 7.00pmThe Holst Singers, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo), Onyx Brass, Simon Hogan (organ), conducted by Nicholas CleoburyPaul Patterson – The Fifth Continent

2021 Festival concerts

Saturday 10th July
7.30pm
Canterbury Cathedral Choir
Elizabeth Bass (harp) • Simon Hogan (organ) • Owen Gunnell (percussion) • David Newsholme (conductor)
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum
Jonathan Dove: Missa Brevis
Judith Weir: Lord bade me welcome
Sir William Henry Harris: Faire is the heaven
Sunday 11th July
7.00pm
Chamber Music from WWI and WWII
Anna Tilbrook (piano) • Michael Collins (clarinet) • Simon Blendis (violin) • Harriett MacKenzie (violin) • Sally Pendlebury (cello)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Tuesday 13th July
7.30pm
Organ and Brass
Francesca Massey (organ) • Onyx Brass
Eugène Gigout: Grand Choeur Dialogué
Judith Weir: Wild Mossy Mountains
Charlotte Hardings: Rhombus
Francis Pott: Empyrean
Malcom Arnold: Brass Quintet No.1, Op.73
Maurice Duruflé: Choral varié sur le Veni Creator, Op.4
Rory Boyle: Tallis’ Light (commissioned by JAM in 2011) – conducted by John Frederick Hudson
Saturday 17th July
8.00pm
Mealor conducts Mealor and Dove
Caritas Choir • Onyx Brass • Simon Hogan (organ)
Jonathan Dove: The Far Theatricals of Day
Paul Mealor: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Jack Oades: 
Between the stormclouds and the sea (World premiere 2021)
Sunday 18th July
3.00pm
That Latin Temperament
Michal Rogalski (oboe) • Fábio Fernandes (guitar)
Argentinian and Brazilian music juxtaposing rhythms of bossa nova, including songs and tangos by Piazzolla, Machado and Villa-Lobos