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5th EUROPEAN JAZZ ACADEMY
May 13 – 20, 2012
Landesmusikakademie NRW, Heek (North Rhine-Westphalia)

International week of workshops and concerts for jazz musicians, choir singers, composers, arrangers and music teachers, open to all ages and musicians from beginner to pro

At the European Jazz Academy, you take part in exciting instrumental and vocal lessons, varied workshops, concentrated ensemble work – ensembles will be made up according to the students’ experience and the instruments they play – and fascinating band and choir formations. For the first time, you will have the chance to take part not only as a solo singer but also as a jazz choir singer. In addition to the cooperation with the nearby colleges in Enschede and Osnabrück, the English jazz scene will be the focus of interest in 2012, with BBC musicians as members of the teaching staff and a quartet of young musicians from Manchester as accompanists for solo singers. In creative composing workshops, the quartet also shows how it paves new ways for musical communication. Composers and arrangers are for the first time invited to try out, discuss and work on their projects. In addition to teachers’ concerts that take place every day, there will be final concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday featuring students and teachers, who present the results of a whole week of workshops.
Students from the German and Dutch Euregio region (eg, Enschede, Münster, Osnabrück) can apply for a scholarship for their participation.

COSTS
If you enroll as an instrumentalist or as a solo singer: € 520,60/red. € 452,30 (accommodation/full board incl.), € 250,– of which are due with enrollment

TEACHERS
Jiggs Whigham, artistic director
Ack van Rooyen, flugelhorn + artist in residence
Matthias Anton, sax
Jose J. Cortijo, perc
Tom Gordon, dr
Hans-Günther Kölz, acc
Erik van Lier, tb
Judy Niemack, voc
Jan Oosthof, tp
Ruud Ouwehand, db
Jeanfrancois Prins, backing g
Joan Reinders, arr
Phil Robson, g
Florian Weber, p

Quartet from Manchester:
Mark Francis, p
Jim Molyneux, dr
Ben Watte, sax
Stewart Wilson, db