Welcome (back) to the IASJ Jazz Meeting!
We are excited to see you at the 2023 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Helsinki, Finland. You will meet with colleagues from all over the world. The list of participants is more international than ever.
The combos
We’ll form preliminary line-ups for the six combos beforehand. Each combo will play two or more standards to see if there is a chemistry between the participants. After the audition, the combo leaders have a meeting and make the necessary line-up changes if needed.
Please prepare your students to check these tunes beforehand in different keys:
All The Things You Are (Kern, Hammerstein II)
Just One Of Those Things (Porter)
A Weaver Of Dreams (Young, Elliot)
Scrapple From The Apple (Parker)
All Of Me (Marks, Simmons)
How Deep Is The Ocean (Berlin)
There Never Will Be Another You (Warren, Gordon)
Co-coaching a combo
The Sibelius Academy Honorary Doctors Aaron Goldberg (US), Tim Hagans (US), Anders Jormin (SE) and David Liebman (US), as well as professor Jukkis Uotila (FI) and Savannah Harris (US) will be coaching the combos. If you would like (co)coach a combo, please get in touch and let us know with whom you would like to co-coach.
Keynote by Dr. Dana Hall
We feel that now would be a good time to concentrate especially on questions concerning the cultural connections of jazz music, past and present, and how they affect pedagogic practices in jazz programs all over the world. Dr. Dana Hall’s presentation will be the starting point for the discussions in the Ongoing Dialogues
Teacher concert version 2023
The 2023 IASJ Jazz Meeting will not have a teacher concert as before. Instead, there will be a teacher group opening every jam session during the week. We’ll form the exquisite teacher groups to open the jam sessions. We are confident that this concept better connects the students and teachers.
Bring your instrument if you can. If you need an instrument from the school, please let us know. In the past, teachers established groups that toured and recorded after IASJ Jazz Meetings. Or organized teacher exchanges within educational programs.
Ongoing Dialogues
Several topics have been already proposed, as you can see from the website. Do you have a topic to suggest? Please send your ideas to:
During the past meetings, the topics discussed always had a direct practical connection to jazz performance and jazz education. This kind of research is called ‘applied jazz research’. Since November 2023, there is the IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research. The topics of the Ongoing Dialogues will filter into the IASJ Jazz Journal.
The academic research is presented on Saturday during the Research afternoon. If any questions concerning that session, please write to:
Final Concerts
The six combos will perform on the last two nights of the week, three combos each night. Please attend both final concerts, evaluate what you have seen and heard with the students. If you like to know how the final concerts were the last two years:
click on this link
Time off and group photo
The day-off activities include tennis, padel, disc golf, Helsinki sightseeing etc. If you want to
participate in the off-day tennis, padel or disc golf activities, bring your gear with you. You are also free to organize your activities.
A picture will be taken of ‘A Great Day in Helsinki’. Do not miss the group photo. It will be sent to you, and it can help to strengthen your international network when you contact your colleagues after the meeting.
Be prepared…
Midsummer in Finland is exceptional. The Finns are used to the midnight sun, but are you?
Helsinki is a beautiful city with attractions of all sorts. You might already know that we Finns are the second-happiest country/people in the world. Check us out from this article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/world/europe/finland-happiness-optimism.html?smidtiemshare
More about Helsinki:
https://www.myhelsinki.fi/en/info/touristtiinformation
More about the meeting:
https://2023iasjhelsinki.com/
The checklist for the representatives:
1) For sending the participating fee invoice we need: the official name of your school and the address; the info on how many participants in total will be attending from your institution; please also confirm the names and instruments of representatives, teachers, and students.
NB. unfortunately, we cannot accept cash payments.
2) To avoid food waste, we would like to know the number of people participating in the
Welcome Reception, June 25th at 6pm
3) If you want to participate in the off-day tennis, padel or disc golf activities, please bring
your gear with you if possible.
The checklist for the teachers:
1) Please let me know if you are interested in co-leading an ensemble. In the end, the
ensemble leaders will decide how they want to work with their ensemble and if they would like to have a co-leader.
2) Let me also know if you would like to be a member of a teacher group opening a jam
session
3) If you want to participate in the off-day tennis, padel or disc golf activities, please bring
your gear with you if possible. Please provide the answers before the 8yh of May to:
See you soon!
The Host School Coordinators
Jussi Kannaste
Sami Linna
Jari Perkiömäki
Sibelius Academy – University of the Arts, Helsinki