JAM Composing Opportunity
The John Armitage Memorial Trust (JAM) has launched a new Organ and Brass Quintet composition initiative that will culminate in a commission and world premiere for a composer. This year they hope to add to the repertoire catalogue for Organ and Brass Quintet through a series of virtual masterclasses, live workshops and performance that will lead to a commission and premiere. The project starts next week on Monday 17th May with free virtual masterclasses by Francesca Massey, (Director of Music and Organist at Rochester Cathedral) and the acclaimed Onyx Brass. This will be followed by a live Zoom Question and Answer session with Francesca and Onyx at 6.00pm on Wednesday 19th May. The masterclasses will remain on JAM's site as a resource for any composer now or in the future to learn the complexities of writing for these particular, perhaps daunting, instruments.
This is an inspirational, interactive composition project that is free and open to all composers based on the UK. Composers who are then interested to continue with their involvement in the project should provide 50-bar sketches of their proposed compositions to be submitted by 1st June. Six sketches will be selected for work-shopping in July led by composer Paul Mealor, with full scores delivered in August. At the performance in the Autumn, a composer will be awarded a £500 commission for premiere at JAM's season launch concert in London in March 2022.
For details and information, please go to https://jamconcert.org/jam-masterclass-series/
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