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world music, jazz, popular music
All About Jazz - International Jazz Studies Workshop
9 February 2019, Saturday
8:30 am - 1:30 pm
Auditorium
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Jazz Showcase

The international workshop of the Jazz Showcase Talent Exchange is jointly organised by Müpa Budapest and the Jazz Studies Research Group. The workshop is practice-oriented. These free, open presentations and round table discussions are designed for young jazz musicians, experts of the genre and interested jazz lovers.

Workshop (in English, with a Hungarian interpreter)
The 25-minute talks will begin after an official introduction.

09.40 am: Dr Pedro Cravinho (Lisbon/Birmingham): Dialogues - The crossroads between fado and jazz in Portugal
Dr Cravinho, who is a member of the Jazz Showcase international jury, will present forms of improvisation on the basis of work on his forthcoming
dissertation.

10.10 am: Péter Ajtai, double bassist, one of the most active musicians on the Hungarian jazz scene: Improvisational process models

11.00 am: Ági Kazai, jazz singer, university professor: The relevance of the techniques of Bob Stoloff to Hungarian vocal jazz education

11.30 am: Judit Csobod: Collectivism and other alternative career strategies for creatives
The speaker will analyse strategies for creative musicians beginning their careers, with a particular focus on collectivism.

12.00 pm: Soma Somoskői (Gent): The Forms of Creative Collaboration in the Jazzband

01.30 pm: Round table discussion (in Hungarian with an English interpreter): Bartók as a 'pure source' of contemporary Hungarian jazz
Participants:
Károly Binder DLA, jazz department head, member of the Jazz Showcase international jury
András Párniczky MEd, guitarist, leader of the Bartók Electrified project
Zsuzsanna Könyves-Tóth music historian, doctorandus
Kornél Zipernovszky critic, founder of the Jazz Studies Research Group

Programme media partner: Gramofon classical and jazz magazine

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

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