Jâms Coleman

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

As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist, Sir John Tomlinson, Robert Murray, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicky Spence, Robert Murray, Andrew Kennedy, James Newby, Lauren Fagan and Nicholas Mogg. He looks forward to recording a disc of Loewe songs with Nicholas Mogg for Champs Hill Records later this month.

Future recital highlights include performing with Sir Bryn Terfel in a live Radio 3 broadcast from St David’s Hall, Cardiff on 16^th December.

Chamber-music engagements include performances in the UK and across Europe with instrumentalists Laura van der Heijden, Jamal Aliyev, Steffan Morris, Timothy Ridout, Peter Moore, Luke Hsu, Clio Gould and Maggie Faultless. He has performed live on BBC Radio 3, BBC World Service, BBC 2’s Proms Extra, BBC Radio Cymru and S4C. He looks forward to recording a recital disc with Laura van der Heijden for Chandos Records in Febraury.

Jâms enjoys performing solo recitals and as a concerto soloist. Concerto performances include Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos and concertos by Chopin, Brahms 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.