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Jâms Coleman

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Website: http://www.jamscoleman.com/

From Anglesey, in North Wales, Jâms Coleman is an exceptional pianist who enjoys a rich and varied musical life performing as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist. 


From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist.

Jâms regularly performs at the major festivals and venues in the UK and in Europe and highlights from the 2022/23 season include recitals at the BBC Proms, Champs Hill, Cheltenham Festival, King’s Place, Machynlleth Festival, North Norfolk Music Festival, Ortús Chamber Music Festival, Penarth Chamber Music Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, and The Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).

Albums include ‘Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest’ with cellist Laura van der Heijden for Chandos Records, and ‘Loewe: The Other Erlking’ with baritone Nicholas Mogg for Champs Hill Records. Both of these recordings were released to critical acclaim in all the leading music magazines. The 23/24 season will see the release of a second album with Laura van der Heijden for Chandos Records, and the release of an album of Fanny Hensel lieder for First Hand Records.

Recent and future highlights include performances with BBC NOW, Britten Sinfonia, and the Marmen Quartet; recitals with instrumentalists David Adams, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Brett Dean, Lesley Hatfield, Laura van der Heijden, Steffan Morris, Alice Neary, Amy Norrington, Robert Plane, Timothy Ridout, Colin Scobie, Ursula Smith, Sini Simonen, Jonathan Stone, and Maria Włoszczowska.

As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with James Gilchrist, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Mofidian, Nicholas Mogg, Nicholas Mulroy, Robert Murray, James Newby, Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir John Tomlinson, Ailish Tynan, and Elizabeth Watts. Recent highlights include a Radio 3 recital with Sir Bryn Terfel, and performing with Felix Kemp, Michael Mofidian, and Elizabeth Watts at the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Jâms enjoys working as a concerto soloist and performances include Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, and concertos by Brahms, Chopin, and Mozart.

Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 2016 he graduated with a Masters from the Royal Academy of Music where he then stayed on as a Fellow. In 2018 he was the Artistic Director of a concert series based in St Clement Danes Church in central London which featured twenty-four lunchtime concerts and five evening concerts.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, Op.37
Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major, Op 70, no. 1, (Ghost)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (Moonlight)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, Op.58
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, Op.73 (Emperor)
Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat major, Op. 120, No.2
Chopin Scherzo No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.31
Franck Sonata in A major (arr. for viola and piano)
Glinka Sonata for viola and piano in D minor
Owen, Morfydd Llwyn Prelude in E minor
Schumann, Clara Piano Trio, Op. 17
Schumann, Robert Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Scriabin Waltz in A-flat major, Op.38
Shostakovich Sonata for viola and piano Op 147
Williams, Grace Y Llyn Mudd (The Silent Pool) - Prelude for Piano
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op.37
Beethoven
Piano Trio in D Major, Op 70, no. 1, (Ghost)
Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (Moonlight)
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4, Op.58
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5, Op.73 (Emperor)
Brahms
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat major, Op. 120, No.2
Chopin
Scherzo No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.31
Franck
Sonata in A major (arr. for viola and piano)
Glinka
Sonata for viola and piano in D minor
Owen, Morfydd Llwyn
Prelude in E minor
Schumann, Clara
Piano Trio, Op. 17
Schumann, Robert
Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Scriabin
Waltz in A-flat major, Op.38
Shostakovich
Sonata for viola and piano Op 147
Williams, Grace
Y Llyn Mudd (The Silent Pool) - Prelude for Piano

Concerts & Recitals

In the footsteps of Hafez: exploring Persian poetry at Oxford Lieder

Recital with Michael Mofidian at the Oxford Lieder Festival
Mark Pullinger for Bachtrack
Jâms Coleman impressed with his wonderfully expressive playing.
Concert with Timothy Ridout (viola) at the Festival 'Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad' in Switzerland, January 2019
The Strad
Further highlights included a Lachrymae whose final 'Flow My Tears' was of a strikingly moving, stoic display and beauty, with Ridout's pianist Jâms Coleman very much part of that package.

Concert at St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Lower Machen Festival
South Wales Argus
The opening work was the 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80. More like a set of études, this rarely heard work was extremely well performed, giving the pianist full scope to demonstrate his prodigious technique combined with a sensitivity and appreciation of Beethoven’s demands.

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