Thursday 29 - Friday 30 March 2012
Launched in 1993, the Leeds International Jazz Education Conference is the leading practice-based research event of its kind in Europe. The event welcomes delegates from around the world to participate in crossdisciplinary presentations, performances, workshops and discussion groups.
LIJEC is an annual event focusing on practice-based jazz research, education, performance and composition. It offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, and arts organisers to engage with the latest sounds and emerging ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development. LIJEC also provides opportunities for Leeds College of Music students to showcase their work.
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Leeds International Jazz Education Conference 2012:
Jazz Practice in the 21st Century
The 18th Leeds International Jazz Education Conference takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 29th to Friday 30th March 2012. LIJEC is an annual event focusing on jazz practice including research addressing education, performance and composition. It is the only conference of its kind in the UK and offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, and arts organisers to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development.
LIJEC 2012 will focus on Jazz Practice in the 21st Century.
Big Band: The conference will host the National Youth Jazz Orchestra who will give an afternoon workshop and an evening concert on Friday 30th March http://www.nyjo.org.uk/
Keynote Speaker: Trilok Gurtu
A world class, virtuoso percussionist, whose work has blended the music of his homeland with jazz fusion, world music and other genres. Trilok Gurtu began playing western drum kit in the 1970s, and developed a stong interest in jazz. He has attracted a world class set of collaborators over a long career including John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Bill Evans, Pharoah Sanders, Dave Holland, Asian Dub Foundation and Nitin Sawhney.
Trilok has garnered a number of prestigious awards and nominations, including Best Overall Percussionist winner, Drum Magazine, 1999; Best Overall Percussionist winner, Carlton Television Multicultural Music Awards, 2001; Best Percussionist winner, Down Beat's Critics Poll for 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 [2], 2000, 2001, and 2002 [3]; and Best Asia/Pacific Artist nominee, BBC Radio 3 World for 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Thursday 29th March
The Venue - Paper session – 1 A – (Chair: Dale Perkins)
Theme - Pedagogy: Improvisation and composition
10.00-10.30
Constructing and deconstructing the solo: cross- cultural uses of Schenkerian and other analytical tools for understanding and teaching jazz improvisation
Charles Brereton
10.30-11.00
Coltrane’s Living Room: An Alternative Perspective of Jazz Pedagogy
Joshua Renick
11.00-11.30
Towards a holistic jazz education: motivational processes affecting the learning of improvisation
Heli Reimann
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 1 B – (Chair: Katherine Williams)
Theme - Jazz education & learning practice
10.00-10.30
Changes in learning practices in jazz: how do current descriptions on institutionalization of jazz culture and jazz education relate to the practical theory of jazz educators?
Steiner Satre
10.30-11.00
Learning in, with and from the subculture – Jazz and the current meaning of its educational institutions.
Martin Niederauer
Theme - Sound vocabulary in musical practice
11.00-11.30
The role of jazz singers sound vocabulary in musical practice
Daniela Prem
The Venue - Paper session – 2 A (Chair: Justin Williams)
Theme - Jazz: connections and integrations
11.45-12.15
Teaching Rhythmic Improvisation: Integrating Traditional Brazilian and Modern Jazz Concepts to Develop a Deeper Connection Between Rhythm, Melody and Harmony
Matthew Warnock
12.15-12.45
The Use of Improvisation in Klezmer
Mike Anklewicz
12.45-13.15
Meetings”: Dialogues between Jazz and Fado and the construction of a new soundscape
Pedro Carvinho
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 2 B (Chair: Brian Priestley)
Theme - Composition & Arranging
11.45-12.15
Three compositional short portraits in jazz
Krystoffer Dreps
12.15-12.45
Reinventing the Wheel: Examining the Arranging Techniques of Kenny Wheeler
Matt Roberts
12.45-13.15
Big band arranging – weights, measures & angles.
Frank Griffith
The Wardrobe Club - Live Music 1
Set 1: 12.00-12.45
LCoM Student Jazz Bands
Set2: 13:00 – 13:45
LCoM Student Jazz Bands
The Venue - Keynote Presentation
14.15-15.15
Trilok Gurtu
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 3 (Chair: Damien Harron)
15.30-16.00
Jazz Communities in the 21st Century: A New Association for Canadian Jazz Education
Jeremy Hepner
16.00-16.30
David Baker, Dan Morgenstern and their relevance to 21st-century jazz studies
Brian Priestley
16.30-17.00
The Trans-Generation Game: Mixed Mentors and the Evolution of British Jazz Education
Katherine Williams
The Wardrobe – Workshop/Demo -session – 1
15.30-16.15
Rhythm and Coordination
Klausen Martin
16.15-17.00
Groove India ipod App: Play - Along Workshop - Indo Jazz, the first steps
Bannister Jesse & Bhupinder Singh Chaggar
The Venue – Evening Concert
20.00-21.00
Trilok Gurtu in Concert
A world class, virtuoso percussionist, whose work has blended the music of his homeland with jazz fusion, world music and other genres. Trilok Gurtu began playing western drum kit in the 1970s, and developed a stong interest in jazz. He has attracted a world class set of collaborators over a long career including John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Bill Evans, Pharoah Sanders, Dave Holland, Asian Dub Foundation and Nitin Sawhney.
Trilok has garnered a number of prestigious awards and nominations, including Best Overall Percussionist winner, Drum Magazine, 1999; Best Overall Percussionist winner, Carlton Television Multicultural Music Awards, 2001; Best Percussionist winner, Down Beat's Critics Poll for 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 [2], 2000, 2001, and 2002 [3]; and Best Asia/Pacific Artist nominee, BBC Radio 3 World for 2002, 2003, and 2004.
http://www.trilokgurtu.net/
The Wardrobe Club: Jam Night
21.30-23.00
Delegates and Leeds College of Music Students and staff
Friday 30th March
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 4 (Chair: Dale Perkins)
Theme - Jazz, reception and interactivity
9.30-10.00
Maria Schneider, Digital Patronage and Composer/Audience Interactivity
Justin. A Williams
10.00-10.30
Interactive fandom: jazz scenes and audience practice in the age of the internet
Tom Sykes
10.30-11.00
Getting into the "Grooves of History": Armstrong, Ellison, and the "Authentic" Jazz Listener.
Paul Watkins
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 5 (Chair: Katherine Williams)
Theme - Analysis
11.15-11.45
Referential Set Theory: Analysis and Improvisation in Contemporary Jazz
Scott Cook
11.45-12.15
Paulo Moura’s Quartet and Hepteto: a consideration of two seminal Brazilian Jazz recordings
Clifford Korman
12.15-12.45
Planing and Referential Soloing: The Ultimate Variation
Jeff Benatar
The Venue – Workshop/Demo -session – 2
11:15-12.00
Creative Use of Interactive Music Technologies in Jazz Performance and Jazz Pedagogy
Heinrich von Kalnein, Uli Rennert & Gregor Hilbe
12.00-12.45
Motivic improvisation workshop
Zezo Olimpio
The Wardrobe Club - Live Music 2
Set 1: 12.45 – 13.45
LCoM Student Jazz Bands
Set2: 14.00 – 15.00
LCoM Student Jazz Bands
The Venue Bar - Paper session – 6 (Chair: Brian Priestley)
Pedagogy
13.30-14.00
Making Connections: Benny Carter's Kansas City Suite and Contemporary Jazz History Pedagogy
Anthony Bushard
14.00-14.30
The Unique Jazz Pedagogy of Dennis Sandole
Thomas Scott McGill
14.30-15.00
Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching and Learning Jazz Composition
Richard Graf
15.30-16.15
Plenary
Panel to be confirmed
The Venue – National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)
15.00-18.00
Open workshops: delegates are invited to attend as observers
The Venue – Evening Concert
19.00-21.25
National Youth Jazz Orchestra in Concert
NYJO is world-famous as a glittering showcase for the country’s best young musicians. Since NYJO’s founding, by Music Director Bill Ashton OBE in 1965, most of the current generation of top British jazz musicians have risen through its ranks, often becoming established jazz stars whilst still playing with the band. One of NYJO’s aims is to share the talents of exciting young players with as wide a potential audience as possible.
NYJO is known for its unique swinging big band sound. Much of its music is especially written for the orchestra by British composers, often past and present members of the band. The music repertoire is huge, covering a wide variety of styles suitable for different occasions. NYJO’s concerts can be enjoyed by non-jazz audiences and jazz-lovers alike. Another of NYJO’s aims is to raise the profile of jazz, especially amongst young people, and so schools’ concerts are an important part of NYJO’s schedule.
NYJO has performed many hundreds of concerts all over Britain, from Ronnie Scott’s, The Barbican, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Usher Hall Edinburgh, The Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, to theatres, clubs and schools. It has made numerous TV and radio programmes, recorded around 40 albums, and visited most European Countries as well as USA, Australia and New Zealand.
NYJO is recognised as a world-class jazz orchestra, and regularly tops the bill at festivals. In July 2002 NYJO was voted Best Big Band for the 4th time in the British Jazz Awards. Bill Ashton received the BBC Radio 2 Jazz Award in 1995 for his Services to Jazz, and received the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group’s Special Award in 2007.
Leeds College of Music
3 Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
United Kingdom
Queries about attending LIJEC 2012 should be addressed to: LIJEC@lcm.ac.uk
Conference rates are inclusive of all scheduled presentations, panels and workshops. The College has a licensed café bar for the purchase of refreshments & foods.
Single Delegate Rates
Early booking rate (book before Friday 17 February 2012)
£110 (£90*)
Full conference rate (from Monday 20 February 2012) £130 (£105*)
Single day rate
Early booking rate (book before Friday 17 February 2012) £60 (£50*)
Full single day rate (from Monday 20 February 2012) £70 (£60*)
Institutional Rates
Early booking rate (book before Friday 17 February 2012) £210
Full conference rate (from Monday 20 February 2012) £235
Single day rate
Early booking rate (book before Friday 17 February 2012) £115
Single day rate (from Monday 20 February 2012) £135
*Reduced rate – Applies to self-financing delegates who are in full-time education, unemployed or senior citizens.
**Institutional rate – Entitles up to three people from a single institution to attend.Optional Events
Conference dinner: Thursday 29th March 2011 (6pm), ‘The Wardrobe ‘ (places limited so please book early): £21.50 (2 courses and half a bottle of wine)
Concerts:
Thursday 29th – (8pm) Trilok Gurtu £10
Friday 30th – (7pm) National Youth Jazz Orchestra £9.60
Official Hotel Partner
Leeds College of Music is delighted to partner with the Leeds Marriott Hotel to offer its conference delegates, student parents and guests the following exclusive discount:
From £89 Bed & Breakfast - off peak (Thursday/Friday/Sunday)
From £99 Bed & Breakfast - on peak (Saturday/Monday, Tuesday Wednesday)
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