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New partnership with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute

New partnership with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute

30. October ’24

The 15th International Jazz Workshop, which will take place at our university’s Jazz Institute from 17 to 21 November 2024, establishes the Jazz Institute’s new partnership with the renowned Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston, USA. As part of this partnership, a mutual exchange will now take place every year: In November 2024, a delegation from Boston, consisting of five students and one lecturer, will travel to Munich. A return visit by a delegation from our Jazz Institute is then planned for spring 2025.

The highlight of the visit in November 2024 will be the final concert of the planned workshop. On Thursday, 21 November 2024 at 7:00 PM, all participants will present the results of their joint work in Hall X at Gasteig HP8. Tickets for € 10 / reduced € 7 are available via München Ticket.

The partnership with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (https://college.berklee.edu/focused/global-jazz) is an important next step in the international networking of the Jazz Institute and deepens the existing cooperation within the framework of the Kurt Maas Jazz Award. As part of this biennial competition for students of the HMTM Jazz Institute, the first prize is participation in a summer school at Berklee.

Since 2013, the Jazz Institute has been systematically expanding its international collaborations in order to provide our students with a broad international network during their studies. In this context, the institute works with the Mongolian State Conservatory and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, for example. There have also been close links with Brazil since 2023. The HMTM Jazz Institute is a member of the Board of the International Association of Schools in Jazz. Various guest performances and projects, such as an EU-funded big band project, regularly take student ensembles to different countries.

About the Berklee Global Jazz Institute:

The Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) is a performance programme within the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA) designed to foster creativity and musicality through various musical disciplines. The BGJI provides a comprehensive environment for contemporary jazz where students can develop their creativity at the highest level and learn to contribute music as an important part of society.

The founder and artistic director is the pianist and composer Danilo Pérez. The Grammy-winning pianist and composer is one of the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time. In just over a decade, his distinctive blend of pan-American jazz, encompassing the music of the Americas, folk and world music, has won critical acclaim and a loyal audience.

About the Jazz Institute of the HMTM:

The Jazz Institute at the University of Music and Theatre Munich can look back on more than 30 years of academic training for talented jazz musicians. Founded in the late 1980s at Munich’s Richard Strauss Conservatory (RSK) at the Gasteig under the direction of jazz musician and Berklee graduate Kurt Maas, it developed into a centre for successful jazz education in Germany under the direction of jazz trumpeter Prof. Claus Reichstaller. Since 2008, the Jazz Institute has been part of the HMTM, the largest state university of the arts in Bavaria. Today, around 80 students from around 20 different countries study at the HMTM’s Jazz Institute.

At the centre of the Munich jazz education is a balanced relationship between experiment and tradition, practice and theory as well as numerous performance and cooperation opportunities, for example with the Munich jazz club Unterfahrt, the nightclub in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof or the Munich club Milla. In addition to university concerts and regular international workshops, the Kurt Maas Jazz Award plays a central role in the programme and is awarded to students of the Jazz Institute every two years. Since October 2022, classes in Munich have been held in premises at Gasteig HP8.