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Please note the galleries are closed between 30 June – 11 July whilst we install our next exhibition.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note the galleries are closed between 30 June – 11 July whilst we install our next exhibition.

Jâms Coleman

From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. He regularly performs at prestigious festivals and venues in the UK and internationally and recent highlights include recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms, Champs Hill, Cello Biënnale (Amsterdam), Cheltenham Festival, Kings Place, Leeds Lieder Festival, LSO St Luke’s, Ortús Chamber Music Festival (Cork), Oxford International Song Festival, Petworth Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, The Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Wigmore Hall.

Jâms has a duo partnership with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Described as ‘intriguing and beguiling’ by The Guardian and as ‘gently alluring, enigmatic and romantic’ by Gramophone, their most recent album – ‘Path to the Moon’ – reached two million streams worldwide in the first week.

Other albums include an album of Bridge and Britten with Maria Włoszczowska, Hélène Clément and Steffan Morris for Champs Hill Records, works by Bacewicz with the Karski Quartet for Evil Penguin, works by Pamela Harrison with James Gilchrist, Alice Neary and Robert Plane for Resonus Classics, a disc of Fanny Hensel lieder for First Hand Records (recorded in Mendelssohn Haus, Leipzig), and a disc of Loewe lieder with baritone Nicholas Mogg for Champs Hill Records.

He regularly works with singers and instrumentalists at the top of the profession. Highlights include performances with BBC NOW, Britten Sinfonia, the Elias Quartet, Karski Quartet, Kleio Quartet, Maxwell Quartet, and Marmen Quartet; recitals with instrumentalists Hélène Clément, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Brett Dean, Vashti Hunter, Guy Johnston, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Felix Klieser, Jack Liebeck, Amy Norrington, Jennifer Pike, Timothy Ridout, and Jonathan Stone; recitals with singers Claire Booth, Katherine Broderick, James Newby, Nicky Spence, Sir John Tomlinson, Sir Bryn Terfel, and Elizabeth Watts.

Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a Choral Scholar. He graduated with a Masters from the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded an ARAM in 2023.