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JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL – highlights from this year’s festival free, online, from Beethoven & Mahler to four new operas inspired by Derek Jarman

JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL - highlights from this year's festival free, online, from Beethoven & Mahler to four new operas inspired by Derek Jarman
JAM on the Marsh - Aki Blendis with JAM Festival Orchestra, conductor Michael Bawtree
JAM on the Marsh – Aki Blendis with JAM Festival Orchestra, conductor Michael Bawtree

Following sell-out performances from this year’s JAM on the Marsh festival, set in the mediaeval churches of Romney Marsh, Kent, from 2 – 15 September, JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL is free to watch on the JAM website. 

JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL consists of a playlist of individual pieces from the concerts by the London Mozart Players (LMP), the JAM Festival Orchestra formed of LMP alongside local players, singers from the Royal College of Music, and the JAM Sinfonia.

The playlist includes LMP in Holst, Delius, Elgar and the world premiere of Jago Thornton‘s Mumurations, and the JAM Festival Orchestra in Warlock, Beethoven and RVW’s The Lark Ascending with 17-year-old soloist Aki Blendis (shortlisted BBC Young Musician of the Year 2022). The hand-picked JAM Sinfonia perform Iain Farrington’s reduction of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Cameron Biles-Liddell’s Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra with soloist Daniel Shao.

Four resident composers, Toby Anderson, Sam Butler, Roseanna Dunn and Jago Thorton, set libretti by Grahame Davies depicting the life of late Romney Marsh resident Derek Jarman, and the resulting 15-minute operas are performed by singers from the Royal College of Music.

Full details from the JAM website.


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