22nd International Jazz Workshop

Trier, September 30 - October 2, 2010


Instructors :
Professor Ulrich Beckerhoff, trumpet, flugelhorn, lead; Sónnica Yepes, vocals; Professor Matthias Nadolny, tenor saxophone; Professor Peter O’Mara, guitar; Professor Glauco Venier, piano; Gunnar-Plümer, 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 September 30 to October 2, 2010, 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 2009, 25 young musicians from 6 countries participated in the workshop: France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Ecuador, and from Germany, the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saarland.

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.

Applications

Please send applications to:

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

Our thanks to

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

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 in-vited 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 recently, 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 con-ference 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.


Sónnica Yepes-voc / Madrid

The Spanish singer, Sónnica Yepes of Madrid, was born into a family of actors, so that the theatre has been in her blood from an early age. Music has always been an integral part of her life and her very personal means of expression from her youth onwards. - Her models were the powerful and much-admired voice of Mercedes Sosas, the heart-breaking lyrics of tangos and the world-view of ballad singers from the Spanish-speaking world, so that her attention was directed towards poetic texts. Her introduction to jazz came through Ella Fitzgerald, who, together with A.C.Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes from Brazil, had the greatest influence on her music. In 1999, she took up her studies in jazz singing at Folkwang University in Essen, after which she won prizes at international competitions and collaborated with German musicians in the UN TANGO MAS sextet and the HIERBA BUENA duo as well as the group known as NACHTGEFÜHL. She joined the NRW Jazz Orchestra in recording "A quarter of a century" between the years 2000 and 2002. In May 2009, she had an acting role in the theatrical production of "Que felices son los perros en la playa" by Monica Cano in Madrid. She undertook international concert tours and performed at festivals, including the Reutlingen and Potsdam Jazz Festivals, Joe Festival in Essen, the Ruhr Guitar Festival and the Viersen Jazz Festival. - For some time, Sónnica Yepes has been singing her own compositions in her mother tongue as part of a quartet, in which she is joined by Roman Babik-p, Nils Imhorst-db and Mickey Neher-drs. The very intimate musical world she conjures up has as its main inspiration the sensuousness of jazz and the cheerful melancholy of Brazil. "Sónnica Yepes' fascinatingly versatile soprano voice, alternately melancholy, haughty and joyful, meant one could almost dispense with the translations from the Spanish … " (WAZ). “


Professor Matthias Nadolny, saxophone Dortmund / Essen, Germany

Tours, concerts, and festival performances have taken Matthias Nadolny and his band all over Eu-rope with musicians such as Toto Blanke, Adelhard Roidinger, Trilok Gurtu, John Abercrombie, Ben-ny 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 wel-comed 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 ex-ample, Bielefeld, Celle, Herford, Dortmund, Weimar, and once more at the Trier INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP.


Professor Glauco Venier, piano Udine, Italy

After studying organ and composition at the music school in Udine, Glauco Venier turned to jazz and studied in Milan with Franco D’Andrea and at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Very early, he excelled as a semi-finalist in the “Thelonious Monk International Competition” in Washington, D.C. and “Martial Solal” in Paris. In the 1990s, Venier founded his own trio and won first prize at competitions in Austria and France. On tour in Europe and in the USA, he worked with Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava, Lee Konitz, Paolo Fresu, Joey Baron, Valery Ponomarev, Hal Crook, Jack Walrath, Nguyen Lê, Matt Garrison, and many others. - Glauco Venier is professor for jazz piano and composition at the music schools in Triest and Gorizia, Italy. Numerous awards from Italian (RAI) and other radio broadcasters document his artistic activities as do the recently recorded CDs, for example, as a duo with Lee Konitz and with jazz formation and string quartet with Kenny Wheeler. His special talent as sensitive accompanist has been demonstrated again and again on concert tours with Maria Pia de Vito and Norma Winstone. Glauco Venier is once again an instructor at the Trier Workshop. CD “Distances”: Norma Winstone, Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing; nominated for Grammy Award 2009.


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

Peter O’Mara is one of the most sought-after 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 well-constructed 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 crystal-clear, catchy solos.” Peter O’Mara is an established member of Klaus Doldinger’s PASSPORT and has also been a per-manent member in the UNITED JAZZ + ROCK ENSEMBLE in recent years. In addition to his teach-ing 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.


Gunnar Plümer, double bass Bonn, Germany

As early as 1988, Gunnar Plümer was lauded by the Stuttgart Zeitung newspaper as the “currently best German jazz double bass player.” He has also made a name for himself internationally through his performances with European and American musicians. In concerts, international festivals, and with recordings, he has worked with Barre Phillips, Terumasa Hino, Albert Mangelsdorff, Christof Lauer, Bobo Stenson, Mel Lewis, Jon Christensen, Jiggs Whig-ham, John Taylor, Clifford Jordan, Randy Brecker, Wolfgang Engstfeld, John Abercrombie, and Uli Beckerhoff, among others. Plümer is an outstanding accompanist and melodious improviser on the double bass and enthralls both audiences and critics with his musically eminently individual playing. From 1989 to 1999, he taught in the jazz department of the Folkwang Academy in Essen and at workshops in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. He has returned to teach at the INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WORKSHOP in Trier.


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 Her-bolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass. Since 1988, Bruno Castellucci has been professor for per-cussion 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, Di-ane 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.

At the conclusion of the Trier workshop in 2010, our instructor team, the INTERNATIONAL SKODA ALL STAR BAND, will also perform in an extended concert tour.

Organization

Work begins in the workshops on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in the Tuchfabrik (TUFA) Culture and Communication Center, Wechselstrasse, 54290 Trier.

The workshop ends on Saturday, October 2, 2010, 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 rea-sonably priced full meals and a large assortment of beverages.

On Thursday evening (September 30), there will be a jam session by the participating musicians in the small hall of the TUFA starting at 8:30 p.m. – Audience: free admission!

On Friday and Saturday evening (October 1 and 2), the instructors together with all participants will give a concert in the large hall of the TUFA starting at 8:30 p.m.
Audience: Admission EUR 14.00, students EUR 7.00

We will arrange for accommodations in 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., the Trier Sparkasse Bank, the Trier City Utilities, JT International Germany GmbH and the REISSER House of Music in Trier