Seminar “Kind of Blue” 2022
23 / 28 August 2022
National Jazz Academy - Fortezza Medicea, Siena
13th edition
The seminar is a six-day full immersion in music.
A unique experience to clarify ideas, deepen knowledge and creative aspects of this music, perfect instrumental technique, improve overall musical preparation and make progress in improvisation style and techniques.
A way for a young musician to use their time well, so as not to waste it.
The course registration fee is €250.00 (including VAT).
For students of Italian music high schools and music schools affiliated with Siena Jazz, the registration fee is €150.00.
Payment must be made by bank transfer to “Associazione Siena Jazz”, IBAN: IT04R0103014200000010344195.
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Educational Offer
- Instrumental workshop A (morning): 1 hour and a half
- Instrumental workshop B (afternoon): 1 hour and a half
- Ensemble music A (mornings): 1½ hours
- Ensemble Music B / Orchestra Workshop / Choral Singing Ensemble* (afternoon): 1 hour and a half
- Improvisation techniques (afternoon): 1 hour
For a total of 6 hours of lessons per day.
* The Orchestra and Choral Ensemble workshops will only take place if a sufficient number of students enrol.
Useful informationProgramme
Useful information
For this 13th edition of “Kind of Blue” in 2021, Siena Jazz has once again drawn up a very strict and comprehensive safety protocol, designed to maximise safety standards for students, teachers and staff, so that we can all devote ourselves, with the utmost concentration and peace of mind, to the music we love.
The classrooms are equipped with 80 polycarbonate panels, each 2 metres high and 1.5 metres long.
Dedicated staff will ensure that the health and safety regulations put in place for the Seminar are properly observed.
The thirteenth edition of “Kind of Blue” is aimed at two levels of young musicians: the first introduces students to the language of jazz, with a particular focus on musical improvisation techniques; the second, based primarily on musical development, is aimed at young musicians who are already familiar with jazz and wish to refine their instrumental technique and their understanding of improvisation.
All of this is achieved through hard work every day, with the musicians practising daily in two groups.
The course is therefore open to musicians of all instruments and ages who want to learn about and explore the musical world of improvisation.
Since last year’s edition, Siena Jazz has been paying particular attention to students at Italian music high schools, enabling them to develop their studies by incorporating a professional focus on jazz music, following the Ministry of Education’s decision to include jazz music in the curriculum of music high schools.
The Kind of Blue seminar can be an excellent stimulus for young music students to acquire the knowledge necessary to attend preparatory courses for entry into three-year higher music education programmes leading to a first-level academic diploma.
We would like to remind you that Siena Jazz was the first non-state institution in Italy to be authorised by the Ministry to issue legally valid qualifications equivalent to a three-year bachelor’s degree (with Ministerial Decree no. 193 of 10-11-2011).
The training course will therefore focus on specific stylistic aspects, improvisation and modern composition. The topics will be chosen by the teachers based on the type of students enrolled.
Every day, participants will attend six hours of lessons as part of a genuine intensive course.
On the afternoon of the last day of the seminar, the final recitals of the courses will take place, with the participation of all the ensemble groups, the orchestra workshop and the choral ensemble.
Siena Jazz is offering four scholarships to musicians enrolled in the seminar to cover the registration fee for the 14th edition of Kind of Blue.
The four students to receive the scholarship are selected by a committee comprising the seminary’s teaching staff.
The committee’s decision is final.
During the “Kind of Blue” seminar, the venue will be open every day from 9.00 am to 7.30 pm.
