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JAM New Music
Onyx Brass, Music of Our Time concert, London
JAM started in 2000 specifically to enable new music in the UK. This remains very much at the core of our
work. We have commissioned and performed over eighty new pieces of music since we opened our doors.
Most of these works have had mul ple performances by JAM and other groups; many have been performed
across the globe, including in the US, Canada and as far afield as New Zealand.
Our annual March Music of Our Time concert held at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, was an excellent
example of this core ac vity. It featured two JAM commissions – one from 2007 by Adam Gorb and the
other from last year by
Thomas LaVoy – and six
submissions. The Chapel
Choir of Selwyn College,
Cambridge, Onyx Brass and
Simon Hogan (organ), under
Michael Bawtree, enthralled
a capacity audience.
This concert showed off our
commissioning programme,
and the way we revisit these
commissions alongside less
well-known composers
perfectly. There is no doubt
that these new composers
will be involved in the
musical life of the UK for
Michael Bawtree
years to come.
