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24th International Jazz Workshop

Trier, October 4 - October 6, 2012


Instructors :
Professor Ulrich Beckerhoff, trumpet, flugelhorn, lead; Maria Pia de Vito, vocals; Professor Matthias Nadolny, tenor saxophone; Professor Peter O’Mara, guitar; Prof. Glauco Venier, piano; Ingo Senst, double bass; Professor Bruno Castellucci, drums

Program offer:
Since 2007, the International Jazz Workshop in Trier has presented its program in a new form and with new qualities. – In the years before that, we had invited complete, already existing ensembles to be coached by internationally known instructors in the art of teamwork, arrangements, improvisation, and interaction within the band. In this year’s workshop from October 4 to October 6, 2012, however, only individual musicians representing all instruments as well as vocals will again be able to apply for entry.

Using their own compositions and those of the instructors, they will familiarize themselves with various forms of playing, musical styles, and efficient techniques of playing.

These essential points marking a great musician can be learned less from verbal instruction than primarily from interplay with experienced musicians. A part of this interplay, of course, includes discussions and interchange on their own musical, stylistic, and aesthetic positions.

The goal of this workshop is to promote great musical talents representing all instruments as well as vocals and to acquaint them with many aspects of music making extending far beyond exclusively instrumental capabilities. The workshop is designed explicitly to promote a musical elite.

The target group consists of outstanding young talents from the German and the European scene who are far advanced in their instrumental, improvisational, artistic, and creative abilities and have already reached a professional level of expertise.

The workshop participants will spend the entire 3 days rehearsing, playing, and performing with the instructors, all of whom count among the stars of the European scene. Above all, the participants are to learn or improve stylistic competence, personal expression, reaction, and interaction in different band constellations as well as the interplay between soloist and rhythm group.

In 2011, young musicians from 6 countries participated in the workshop: Luxembourg, France, Russia, Austria, Switzerland and from Germany.

Only about 25 positions have been allocated for the workshop. Applications are possible only through audio recordings (CD or tape). The cost is EUR 100.00 and does not include board and lodging.

 

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Applications

Please send applications to:

Prof. Ulrich Beckerhoff
Rheinstr. 10
D-28199 Bremen
Tel.: 0049 421 591223
E-Mail: ulrich.beckerhoff@t-online.de

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Our thanks to

We wish to thank for their support
SKODA Motors, Germany, Inc., JT International Germany, the Trier City Utilities, the cultural foundation of the SPARKASSE TRIER Bank and the REISSER House of Music in Trier.

 

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Instructors

Professor Uli Beckerhoff, trumpet, flugelhorn Bremen / Essen, Germany

Uli Beckerhoff has been professor in the jazz department of the Folkwang Academy in Essen since 1991. He first came to international attention when he won first prize at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival. He was a co-founder of the groups Jazztrack, Riot, and Changes, with whom he travelled through almost all of Europe, appearing at virtually all large jazz festivals. He has recorded more than 40 LPs or CDs under his own name, as co-leader and as soloist, and has performed with numerous European and American artists: Palle Danielsson, Albert Mangelsdorff, John Scofield, Wolfgang Dauner, Zbigniew Seifert, Philip Catherine, Maria Joao, Charlie Mariano, Jasper van t`Hof, among others. He represented ARD Television at the European Broadcasting Union concert in Barcelona and was invited along with Wolfgang Engstfeld and Volker Kriegel to tour for the Goethe Institute through 11 African countries. He has worked together with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, the Big Band of NDR Radio and TV, the Manfred Schoof Big Band, and the jazz ensemble of HR Radio and TV and performed concerts with the Jazzpool NRW Radio and TV at the EXPO in Seville, Spain. Most re-cently, he has performed in concert tours, festivals, and recordings with John Abercrombie, John Taylor, Arild Andersen, John Marshall, Alex Riel, Marylin Mazur, Norma Winstone, Peter 0’Mara, Wolfgang Engstfeld, and many others. Uli Beckerhoff is artistic head of the “international jazz conference jazzahead” in Bremen, was advisor in the Weimar European Cultural Capital in 1999, instructor at jazz clinics in Bremen, Münster, Berlin, Burghausen, and Weimar and has been leader of the Trier INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP since 1989.

www.ulrich-beckerhoff-jazz.com


Maria Pia De Vito-voc / Rome

The Neapolitan singer, composer, and arranger Maria Pia De Vito studied classical and contemporary voice, music theory, and harmonics before she began a career as a singer and guitarist of Mediterranean ethno music in the mid-1970s. As early as the 1980s she turned to jazz and worked with such greats as John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Paolo Fresu, Joshua Redman, Miroslav Vitous, Billy Hart as well as the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the NDR Radio Big Band. She has performed concerts at festivals in London, Bath, Birmingham, Berlin, Cologne, Marseilles, Rome, Seville, and Perugia and has toured throughout Europe and the US.

She has been intensively concerned with the link between the Neapolitan music of her home city and modern improvised music. She has dealt with the songs of Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and Sting in her “Songs from the Underground.” She has performed together with Norma Winstone and the Mask Symphony Orchestra in the Royal Elizabeth Hall in London, featuring the works of the English composer Colin Towns. Together with Ralph Towner and John Taylor she produced the CD “Verso” and has participated, in Italy, in a large number of jazz productions with renowned orchestras. As a lecturer, she conducts workshops all over Europe and teaches at the conservatories in Rome and Naples. She has lectured many times at the Trier International Workshop and, in 2007, participated in the Project TWO WORLDS – ONE MUSIC with the Trier Philharmonic conducted by Michael Gibbs.

In recent years Maria Pia De Vito has been intensively concerned with the encounter of jazz improvisation and vocal baroque music, also in connection with electronic instruments. This led to cooperating with, for example, Claudio Astronio, an internationally renowned organist and conductor of baroque music. In other projects with such seemingly different styles, she has worked with the Italian trumpeter and flugelhorn player Paolo Fresu, the French tuba player Michel Godard, and the Studio of the Musiciens du Louvre of Paris. Maria Pia De Vito has recorded more than 30 CDs with international stars in Europe and the US and is now once again lecturer at the JAZZ WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL in Trier.

www.mariapiadevito.com


Professor Matthias Nadolny, saxophone Dortmund / Essen, Germany

Tours, concerts, and festival performances have taken Matthias Nadolny and his band all over Europe with musicians such as Toto Blanke, Adelhard Roidinger, Trilok Gurtu, John Abercrombie, Benny Bailey, Bob Degen, John Taylor, Arild Andersen, Michel Herr, Maria de Fatima, Eje Thelin, among others.

He has been awarded numerous prizes by the radio stations WDR, SWF, RIAS Berlin and the radio stations in Bremen, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Belgrade, and Naples. He has always been a welcomed guest at large festivals in Burghausen, Leverkusen, Warsaw, Wroclaw, the Jazzhausfestival, and "Post This and Neo That" in Cologne and in duo with Gunnar Plümer at the Jazzfest Berlin in 1996 and in duo as well with John Taylor at the “Europhonics” in Dortmund in 1997.

In addition to his responsibilities as professor at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, he teaches at workshops in, for example, Bielefeld, Celle, Herford, Dortmund, Weimar, and once more at the Trier INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP.

www.matthiasnadolny.de


Prof. Glauco Venier-p / Udine

Glauco Venier is one of the most wellknown pianists and composers in Italy. After studying organ and composition at the college of music in Udine, he turned to jazz and studied in Milan with Franco D’Andrea and then at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Very soon he excelled at international competitions such as “Thelonious Monk” in Washington and “Martial Solal” in Paris. In the 1990s Venier founded his own trio and won first prize at competitions in Austria and France. During tours in Europe, the US, South America, and Asia, he worked together with artists such as Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava, Eric Vloeimans, Dave Liebman, Charlie Mariano, Lee Konitz, Paolo Fresu, Joey Baron, Valery Ponomarev, Hal Crook, Jack Walrath, Nguyen Lê, Matt Garrison, and many others.

Glauco Venier is a professor for jazz piano and composition at the college of music in Udine. He teaches at international jazz workshops in Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, and Germany. Numerous awards from broadcast stations in Italy, England, Russia, Austria, and Germany document his artistic activities as do his 24th InterWork Trier recently recorded CDs, for example, with Lee Konitz and a composition for jazz formation and string quartet with Kenny Wheeler. He has repeatedly shown his special talent as an insightful accompanist during concert tours with Maria Pia de Vito and Norma Winstone. – The CD “Distances” with Norma Winstone on vocals, Glauco Venier on piano, and Klaus Gesing on clarinet was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. At the end of August 2010, he recorded with this trio a second CD, “Stories Yet to Tell,” for the renowned ECM label and is currently, again for ECM, recording a piano solo on CD. As composer and pianist, he participated in a project that the WDR Radio Big Band and Radio Orchestra presented in Cologne and Italy in April 2011. – Glauco Venier is a permanent member of the lecture team of the Trier “Jazz Workshop International” and the “International Skoda All Star Band” conducted by the trumpeter Uli Beckerhoff.

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Professor Peter O’Mara, guitar Sydney, Australia / Munich, Germany

Peter O’Mara is one of the most soughtafter guitarists in Europe. In 1981, he came from Sydney via New York to Munich and has worked with such greats as Maria Joao, Jon Christensen, Randy Brecker, Charlie Mariano, Albert Mangelsdorff, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Wheeler, Adam Nussbaum, Anthony Jackson, Bob Mintzer, Russell Ferrante, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, among many others.

DOWNBEAT: “O’Mara guides his group through a series of welconstructed funky jazz instrumentals, with punches that the Brecker Brothers would be proud of!” - CD Monthly: “This is melodic sensitive jazz. O’Mara never pushes himself into the forefront but uses his virtuosity to serve the band. He lets Bob Mintzer’s warm tenor and soprano sax state the melodies, then supports the rhythm section and finally joins in with crystalclear, catchy solos.”

- Peter O’Mara is an established member of Klaus Doldinger’s PASSPORT and has also been a permanent member in the UNITED JAZZ + ROCK ENSEMBLE in recent years. In addition to his teaching activities at the Munich and Linz, Austria, Schools of Music as well as at workshops throughout Europe, he is once again an instructor at the Trier INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP. .

www.peteromara.com


Ingo Senst, double bass Dortmund, Germany


When Ingo Senst plays bass, every note feels palpable. His confident style across all genres and his swinging lines make him one of the most soughtafter side men in the German jazz scene. - Born in Braunschweig in 1964, he studied at the Hilversum Conservatory from 1987-’92, received numerous awards and prizes at an early age and toured with a number of bands through Europe and the US. He is currently a permanent member of the Triosence, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Romy Camerun Band and has performed alongside Benny Bailey, Jeff Cascaro, Dusko Goykovich, Norma Winstone, Rosani Reis, Hans Dekker, Tony Lakatos, Thomas Alkier, Ramesh Shotham, Paul Heller, Bruno Castelucci, Ack van Rooyen, Philippe Catherine, Biréli Lagrène, Andy Haderer, the Modern String Quartet and many more. Concert tours have taken him to many different countries, among others with the International Skoda All Star Band, with Stefan Bauer, the HR Big Band, and he has recorded numerous radio and TV productions for the HR, NDR, BR, WDR, ZDF and NOS/NL broadcasting stations.


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Professor Bruno Castellucci, drums / Brussels, Belgium

As far back as the early 1960s, Bruno Castellucci played with great artists such as Joe Pass, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Jiggs Whigham, NHÖ Pedersen, Lew Soloff, and many others. He has been known to audiences in Germany since 1980 primarily as a member of the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass. Since 1988, Bruno Castellucci has been professor for percussion at the “Royal Conservatory” in Brussels. On radio and TV, in big bands, und combos, he has repeatedly worked with the most renowned musicians representing a wide range of varied styles and has recorded more than 60 albums, for example, for Charlie Mariano, Bobby McFerrin, Airto Moreira, Joe Zawinul, Bob Mintzer, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Jaco Pastorius, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Diane Reeves, Bill Frisell, Jan Akkerman, and many others. He has taught at workshops and seminars in France, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and now has returned to teach at the Trier INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP.

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Organization

Work begins in the workshops on Thursday, October 4, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in the Tuchfabrik (TUFA) Culture and Communication Center, Wechselstrasse, 54290 Trier.

The workshop ends on Saturday, October 6, 2012, around midnight after the final concert in the Tuchfabrik (TUFA) Culture and Communication Center.

Daily rehearsal time begins at 10:00 a.m., , about 6 hours with a lunch break.

Do not forget to bring instruments, amplifiers, and accessories!

We have set up a workshop cafeteria in the rooms of the Tuchfabrik to provide the participants with snacks, fruit, and hot and cold non-alcoholic beverages. – The TUFA pub TEXTORIUM offers reasonably priced full meals and a large assortment of beverages.

On Thursday evening (October 4), there will be a jam session by the participating musicians in the small hall of the TUFA starting at 8:00 p.m. – Audience: free admission!

On Friday and Saturday evening (October 5 and 6), the instructors together with all participants will give a concert in the large hall of the TUFA starting at 8:00 p.m.
Audience: Admission EUR 14.00, students EUR 7.00

We will arrange for accommodations in single- or multiple-bed rooms, including breakfast, for about EUR 28.00 in the Youth Guest House Warsberger Hof in Trier (city center). Other accommodation possibilities c/o Tourist Information Trier, Tel.: 0049 651 978080.

The participation fee for the workshop is EUR 100.00, excluding board and lodging.


We extend our cordial thanks for support from:
SKODA Motors, Germany, Inc., JT International Germany, the Trier City Utilities, the cultural foundation of the SPARKASSE TRIER Bank and the REISSER House of Music in Trier.

 

At the conclusion of the Trier workshop in 2012, our instructor team, the INTERNATIONAL SKODA ALL STAR BAND will also perform in an extended concert tour.