JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust)

JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust) is a charity that champions living composers, creates ambitious performance opportunities and brings world-class music-making into communities. Since launching in 2000, JAM has commissioned and performed more than 165 works by leading UK composers, built an annual Call for Music that now attracts more than 200 submissions, and created a free online library of mus

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JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust) is a charity that champions living composers, creates ambitious performance opportunities and brings world-class music-making into communities. Since launching in 2000, JAM has commissioned and performed more than 165 works by leading UK composers, built an annual Call for Music that now attracts more than 200 submissions, and created a free online library of music and practical resources with more than 150,000 global views.

Alongside its year-round work, JAM produces JAM on the Marsh, a distinctive multi-arts festival rooted in Romney Marsh, Kent. Bringing world-class music, theatre, film and art into medieval churches, community spaces and unexpected settings, it has grown from a single concert into one of the UK’s most distinctive summer festivals: international in quality and local in spirit. Performers include VOCES8, The King’s Singers, Alexander Armstrong, BBC Singers, the Britten Sinfonia, Changeling Theatre and the London Tango Quintet. Year-round JAM runs community art and singing projects, enabling our Marsh residents to flourish in this typically arts-deprived area.

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