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Siena Jazz Summer Workshop
 40th edition International Higher Masterclasses
july 24th - august 7th, 2010
Saturday, July 24th
10:00 to 12:30 am - Fortezza Medicea
Sign-in, delivery of information material and invoices for all the registered students.

12.30 am to 1.30 pm – Cassa Edile conference hall
Harmony test (Instructors S. Zenni and T. Lama)

3.00 – 7.00 pm - Fortezza Medicea
Selections

7.15 - 8.00 pm – Cassa Edile conference hall
For all students:
OPENING MEETING AND INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSES


Sunday, July 25th
10.00 am - 1.30 pm – Fortezza Medicea
Selections

10.00 - 11.30 am – Cassa edile conference hall
Master Lessons: "Jazz Beyond Jazz, Miles, Ornette, Cecil". Howard Mandel, prestigious American critic, author, producer and Chairman of the Jazz Journalists Association, presents and updates his latest volume dedicated to three of the most relevant figures of post-1960 Jazz.

For all students not involved with selections.

3.00-5.00 pm – Fortezza Medicea
Selections

3.00 - 5.00 pm – Cassa Edile conference hall.
Master Lesson: "European Jazz after 1960".
French journalist Thierry Quenum, contributor to Jazz Magazine and jazz.com, one of the most important jazz websites, synthetizes his experiences of listening and visiting European jazz festivals.
For all students not involved with selections.


Master lessons will be held in English with consecutive Italian translation.
Presentations and translations by Francesco Martinelli, director of Jazz Study Center “Arrigo Polillo”, Research Branch of the Siena Jazz Foundation.

6.00 - 7.00 pm – Cassa Edile conference hall
Analysis lesson (instructor Stefano Zenni)
Please note: this lesson is addressed to all Italian students and takes the place of the lessons of the same course that will not take place, according to the regular daily schedule, on August 7th in order to allow the taking place of the closing ceremony with assignment of study purses.

5.00 - 7.00 pm – Fortezza Medicea.
Faculty meeting.

7.15 pm – Enoteca Italiana
For all students and faculty: welcome wine party.


Monday July 26th

8.30 am – Fortezza Medicea
Notice boards will display personalized schedules for each student based on the assessment of instrumental level done in the selections, and including the ensemble combos with instructors, classrooms and rehearsal hours.

9.30 am – Fortezza Medicea
Classes begin.