International Jazz Platform - Master Jazz Workshop Lodz July 2013, 8-11

Intl Jazz Platform is an international educational project, organized within VI Summer Jazz Academy by the Wytwornia Foundation, which gathers creative artists interested in developing their improvisational skills and looking for inspiring conditions to create and express their own music ideas.

First edition of Intl Jazz Platform is organized from July 8th till July 11th in Lodz.

It is a four-day master workshop for instrumentalists having individual musical aspirations and interested in modern approach to music. During these four days workshop's participants will have an opportunity to create music, share experiences and learn from each other.

Programme prepared by the teachers consists of four days of intensive work in comfortable spaces of Wytwornia club and studio, of everyday instrumental classes and classes in small ensembles with international musicians as well as evening meetings and jam sessions in club Wytwornia. The program also includes seminars with invited guests: jazz promoters and directors of jazz festivals.

Teaching through experience, practice and breathing in inspirational environment are the main goals of organizers of the first edition of jazz creative workshop within VI Summer Jazz Academy in Lodz.

Jazz is the music of community in which development comes from being around other musicians.

Time spent together devoted to playing and talking about music provides a possibility of gaining unique experience and ideas for your own artistic path. The role of a teacher comes down to encouraging and supporting young students’ search for personal language, sound and inspirations.

Musicians that are going to run the classes within the Lodz jazz workshop are known for their openness and readiness to initiate creative dialogue with students.

This year classes will be run by the talented and thriving musicians from Poland, Norway, and Great Britain, who take part in a vast number of international projects and music tours:

Maciej Obara (sax), Dominik Wania (piano),Tom Arthurs (trumpet), Marek Kądziela (guitar), Ole Morten Vaagan (double bass), Gard Nilssen (drums).