Hi folks!
Roscommon folk take note, because Music Generation Roscommon is now subsidising up to 10 places on our summer school Youth Academy, joining Music Generation Sligo and Music Generation Mayo. If you or your child/young friend is eligible you get a heavily subsidised rate of €200 for the week including all workshops 10am-4pm each day, jam sessions, festival concerts, and lunch Tues-Friday of our amazing week, 19-24 July. This inspirational week is "like no other school or jazz camp in the world" according to legendary bassman Henrik Linder of Dirty Loops who was a tutor here in 2018. You'll be having the week of your life and learning from the best in the business.
This years faculty consists of 29 tutors including our biggest Youth academy faculty yet lead by Kieran Quinn and Cathal Roche and augmented by Joseph Leighton, Conor and Micheál Murray, Conor Bastible and Nils Kavanagh this year too! Our jam session time has been extended with an earlier start (5:30pm) each afternoon designated to help our adult and youth participants get more playing time.
Our artist in residence is award winning composer, bandleader and pianist Nikki Iles. Her partner in life Pete Churchill is also on the faculty leading our vocal team along with rising star of the New York scene Ashley Pezzotti and Christine Tobin who has recently moved back to Ireland after a successful career in London and New York.
2022 FACULTY - (Ire unless stated)
PIANO
Nikki Iles (UK): Artist/Composer in Residence
Tomasz Bura (Pol/UK)
Dr Scott Flanigan (NI)
Kieran Quinn (Piano and Youth Academy)
Nils Kavanagh (Piano and Youth Academy)
Conor Bastible (Piano and Youth Academy)
VOICE
Pete Churchill (UK) (v, choir)
Ashley Pezzotti (USA)
Christine Tobin
BASS
Conor Murray – Double Bass
GUITAR
Phil Robson (UK/IE)
Dr Mike Nielsen guitar
Joseph Leighton (NI) (& Youth academy)
DRUMS/PERCUSSION
Ricky Quagliato (Ita)
Dr David Lyttle (NI)
SAXOPHONE/WOODWINDS
Cathal Roche
Matthew Halpin
Micheal Murray
BRASS
Dr Linley Hamilton (NI) trumpet
VIOLIN
Oleg Ponomarev
THE FESTIVAL
All the above will feature in some way at our 2022 festival concerts at the Hawks Well and sessions at Hargadons. We will also have appearances from guest acts like ambient jazz tubist Daniel Herskedal (Norway) Bjorn Solli (Norway) and Cathy Jordan (Ireland) who performs a free Hargadons session (arent they all!) with Stuart Hall, Paul Clarvis, Conor Murray and Scott Flanigan. A specially assembled jazz orchestra will perform the music of Nikki Iles while an all-star line up of London Powerhouse Latin Jazz horn trio TRYPL (Ryan Quigley, Paul Booth and Trevor Mires with an all star rhythm section of Federico Malaman Tomasz Bura, Paul Clarvis and RIcky Quagliato) opens the festival main events on Tuesday 19 July in a double bill at the Hawks Well with Christine Tobin's Tower of Song. Tony Kofi leads a Saturday afternoon double bill with another all star band including Ryan Quigley, Mike Nielsen, David Lyttle and John Goldsby, and our All Stars concert provides us with a logistical nightmare as usual: how to fit all 29 amazing musicians on our 2022 faculty into one marathon show.
The week culminates as usual with a marathon Sunday afternoon concert featuring our summer school participants at Andersons, which hosts 13 events this year, all free admission bar one!
A season ticket will set you back just €80 for 5 hawk's Well Theatre concerts and Saturday's lunchtime double bill. Call the Hawk's Well 071 9161518 for a season ticket, its not available online.
We have extra equipment purchased thanks to a SLIGO LEADER grant so our summer school should run more smoothly than ever at ATU Sligo, thanks to all there for accommodating us once again for our week of workshops masterclasses and ensembles.
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Sligo Jazz Project is kindly supported by the Arts Council, Sligo County Council and local patrons and sponsors.
