Lisbon Jazz 3.5

The Lisbon Jazz Summer School (LJSS) has the following main goals: to offer high-quality teaching to jazz students and musicians in Portugal; to provide the Jazz Jazz Summer Course participants the unequaled opportunities of benefiting from the teachings of some of the best jazz musicians in the world and experiencing a close and intensive contact with an internationally recognized jazz band/musician; to provide the Férias com Jazz participants the opportunity to initiate in this musical language; to contribute for a high-level education of jazz students and professionals and for the dynamics of national jazz and it’s international recognition; to be among the best jazz education events in Europe.

The LJSS is arranged in two scopes: formative and performative. The formative scope is composed by two courses: the Jazz Summer Course – Methods, Process and Practice of Songwriting, Collaboration, Performance and Band-Leading, directed to advanced students and professional musicians (>16 years old); and the Férias com Jazz, an introductory jazz course for music students with ages between 12 and 15 years. The performative scope is composed by the Jam Sessions, the Tillery Concert, the Jazz Summer Course Closing Concert, and the Férias com Jazz Closing Concert. Both Closing Concerts are performed by the LJSS participants.

The Lisbon Jazz Summer School is a co-production between Centro Cultural de Belém and Orelha Viva – Associação Cultural.

The LJSS artistic directors are Alexandra Ávila Trindade and João Godinho, co-founders of this event in 2008 and co-founders of Orelha Viva – Associação Cultural.

For this 6th edition of the Jazz Summer Course, the LJSS invited TILLERY, a collaborative project created by Rebecca Martin, Becca Stevens and Gretchen Parlato. As pedagogical directors of this advanced course, Tillery chose the following name for the course: Methods, Process and Practice of Songwriting, Collaboration, Performance and Band-Leading.

The Férias com Jazz has as pedagogical director the trumpet player Gonçalo Marques, and as teachers Ana Araújo (piano), Bruno Santos (guitar), Claus Nymark (trombone, Big Band), João Guimarães (saxophone), Nelson Cascais (bass), Marcos Cavaleiro (drums), and François Choiselat (soundpainting).