Music of our Time: JAM's exploration of new music for choir, brass quintet and organ returns to St Bridge's Church

Onyx Brass at JAM's Music of our Time at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

JAM's Music of our Time returns to St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on Wednesday 20 March 2024, with a programme of new works for choir, brass quintet and organ. The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Onyx Brass and Simon Hogan (organ), conducted by Michael Bawtree will be performing nine works, three world premieres and six London premieres.

The concert revisits JAM’s 2010 commission by Tarik O’Regan, The Night’s Untruth which explores the use of sleep as a metaphor via excerpts from poems written in the 17th to 20th centuries. There is also the world premiere of a JAM commission by Isabelle Ryder, participant of the Composers’ Residency 2023. Illumination, for organ and two trumpets, pays homage to St Brigid (St Bride) of Kildare, patron saint of St Bride’s Church.

Having received over 200 entries to its 2023 Call for Music, JAM has programmed eight submitted pieces, including works by Toh Yan Ee, Steve Richer, Donald Wetherick, Marisse Cato, George W. Parris, Anselm McDonnell, Christopher Churcher and Jonathan Woolgar.

Full details from JAM's website.