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12.06.08 Master classes at the Imaxinasons ’08 International Jazz Festival
Registrations for the Imaxinasons Master Classes will open on Thursday, June 12th on the Festival website.
As announced, Imaxinasons includes among its many activities Master Classes with the participation of some of the Festival guest artists. These sessions will allow both professional musicians and students of music schools to share with these artists their technical know-how about their own instruments, in an atmosphere of musical research that will be running in parallel to the festival.
Access to Master Classes is free of charge. Potential participants are, however, invited to register in advance to help organize these sessions on the basis of the number of participants inscribed.
For this ‘08 issue, Imaxinasons organizing committee has planned two Master Classes, scheduled as follows:
Venue
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo
Guest Artists and date
- Thursday, July 3rd (16.00h. to 18.00h.) Bojan Z (piano)
- Friday, July 4th (16.00h. to 19.00h.) Markus Stockhausen
(trumpet) & Stefano Scodanibbio (double bass)
Registration
BOJAN Z (Bojan Zulfikarpasic)
This Serbian pianist, born in Belgrade in 1968 and now settled in France, is considered as one of the best European pianists of the time. At the Festival he will play with the Michel Portal Unit.
Born to a family of musicians, he began his studies at the age of 16, first in the local context of blues and rock, only to develop his own musical career with the introduction of a number of varied influences, ranging from classical and full-fledged mature jazz to the resonance of Balkan traditional tunes, which are most trendy today after Kusturica’s deep musical influence. But he was also influenced by Brazilian tunes (that his own father loved so much) and The Beatles.
His training was completed from 1986 in Michigan (where he got a grant at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp) and Paris, the city where he finally settled and where he initiated his professional career with renowned masters like Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis, Dewey Redman, David Liebman, Reggie Workman, Aldo Romano, Billy Hart, John Abercrombie and N’guyen Lê.
Awarded as the best Yugoslavian jazzman in 1989, the ‘90s was the decade where the immense talent of Bojan Z finally boomed, and the time when he collaborated with the Azur Quartet, the group of legendary French double bassist Henri Texier, and with acclaimed French clarinetist Michel Portal.
Since then, he has been a prominent jazz figure, permanently present in the European jazz scene, playing with highly recognized bands as well as with his own group, the Bojan Z Quartet, established in 1993. In 2001 he published Solo Obsession, his most full-blown and mature album.
He received the 2005 European Jazz prize (Hans Koller Prize) to the best European jazz Artist.
MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN
Trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, the son of celebrated contemporary composer Kart Heins, put an end to a 25-year-long shared musical experience with his father in 2001 in order to (using his own words) “make my own music and have an spiritual horizon of my own”.
It was then that he decided to dive into the waters of jazz working in varied projects like Electric Treasures, a ten-year-old trio formation with Arild Andersen and Patrice Héral. Acoustic Treasures is a much more melodic and delicate trio structure with clarinetist Tara Bouman and drummer Mark Nauseef. Moving Sounds is a virtuous duet with Tara Bouman which takes concerts to museums and churches. In 2006 he was awarded with the WDR Prize (Radio Cologne Symphony Orchestra) to the best German interpreter.
In summary, Stockhausen is a very special type of musician who moves in varied fields and does not fit any kind of standardized description.
STEFANO SCODANIBBIO
Born in Italy in 1956, Stefano Scodanibbio is one of the double bassists responsible for the renaissance of this instrument. Since the 1980s and 1990s he has been spreading interest for the double bass by playing tunes specifically composed for it in relevant festivals across the world.
In 1983 he founded the music exhibition Rassegna di Nuova Musica in Macerata (Italy), and in 1996 he set out to the task of instructing in double bass playing at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse.
He has expanded his musical skills by bringing new tones to the double bass sound and by introducing imaginative technical innovations. As a composer, he is responsible for some forty compositions; most of them string studies, concerts and quartets.
He has participated in duets with Rohan de Saram and Markus Stockhausen. Also, he has collaborated in dance and theatre shows, and has even composed a musical play for the stage that will be performed in Rome and Mexico D.C. next autumn ‘08.
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