New Jazz School Munich

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The Neue Jazzschool München e. V. is one of the oldest training centers for jazz and popular music in Germany. Before conservatories and universities offered courses in the field of jazz and popular music, musicians at the Munich Jazz School, founded in 1974, acquired the basics for improvising, composing, arranging and for live and studio work.

history

At the beginning of the 1970s, jazz pianist Joe Haider reacted to the unsatisfactory training situation for professional musicians in Germany. Young talents with a passion for jazz and light music did not have the opportunity to receive sound training or take professional lessons. Academic institutions such as conservatories and music colleges paid no attention to jazz and other forms of popular music as a serious field of activity for professional musicians.

Haider, who himself had completed classical training at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, was inspired by the Swiss Jazz School founded in Bern in 1967 , Europe's first training facility of its kind, and by the teaching concept of the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. With these role models in mind, he and colleagues from the lively Munich jazz scene founded the first school for jazz and popular music in Germany in 1974: the Munich Jazz School.

His training and teaching facility in the Pasing district of Munich was based closely on the curriculum of the Berklee College of Music and quickly developed into a magnet for musicians from all over Germany and neighboring countries. This was followed by intensive collaboration with the Munich jazz club Domicile , additional workshops were created, and thanks to Haider's contacts, the students of the Munich Jazz School were given the opportunity to work with greats in jazz.

In order to cover the entire range of professional music education, Haider founded the school's own label EGORECORDS and thus enabled students to publish their first recordings. These included productions by Max Neissendorfer , who later headed the jazz school, with the Swiss Jazz Quintet .

The training program was supplemented by cooperation with the Munich Cultural Department and concert subsidies by companies. Awards from students of the Munich Jazz School with the cultural promotion award for interpretive arts of the state capital Munich such as Thomas Faist , Max Neissendorfer, Peter Tuscher , Andreas Vahsen and Roman Schwaller confirmed the quality of the education.

In 1984 Haider switched to the Swiss Jazz School in Bern as headmaster and handed over the reins of the Munich school to Max Neissendorfer. Under Neissendorfers leadership, the school was constituted as an association in 1985 and became the Neue Jazzschool München e. V. renamed. At this time, the training center began its direct cooperation with the Munich music school Ohrwurm, which introduces the youngest young musicians to jazz and light music. As a result, the jazz school moved into a new, shared school building in the Laim district of Munich. The graduates include the film composer Manu Kurz , the singer and actress Conny Kreitmeier and the pianist Jan Eschke .

In autumn 2007, Neissendorfer, together with the long-time jazz school lecturer Franz-David Baumann, expanded the school's training offer with a state-recognized training option: They set up the first vocational school for music, specializing in rock / pop / jazz in Upper Bavaria. In the course of the establishment of the vocational college, the jazz school returned to Pasing . The school enriches the musical life of Munich with a series of jam sessions , workshops, competitions and concerts.

Teaching and training programs

Vocational school for music, specializing in rock / pop / jazz

Vocational schools for music are a state-recognized form of vocational training for musicians that only exists in the state of Bavaria. They are divided into the fields of classical music, church music, musical and rock / pop / jazz. The two-year training at the vocational school for music, specializing in rock / pop / jazz, ends with the qualification "State-approved leader in popular music". It prepares students for leading choirs, big bands, school bands, teaching at private music schools and working as a live and studio musician, composer and arranger.

With the attendance of the third additional educational year, the graduates receive the right to teach at publicly funded music schools. The two-year vocational school can also be followed by training as a specialist teacher for music and communication technology, with which the license to teach at secondary schools, secondary schools and special schools can be acquired within a further two years.

Intensive training

The Neue Jazzschool München e. V. continues the training concept of its founder Joe Haider, which is closely based on the curriculum of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The two-year intensive training is aimed at aspiring professional musicians who are on the road with their own bands and who would like to acquire missing technical and theoretical basics.

The students of the intensive training prepare for the demands of musicians in aural training , harmony , rhythm , arrangement and composition courses. Lessons in the major and minor instrument as well as in ensemble playing as part of band workshops complement the training program. After passing the final exams, the training ends with the institute's own diploma from the Neue Jazzschool München e. V.

General instrumental and vocal lessons

In preparation for a vocational school for music, the intensive training of the Neue Jazzschool München e. V. or the entrance examination at music colleges and conservatories, general lessons are given in the subjects of singing, piano, guitar, electric and double bass, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, drums and percussion.

Theory lesson

For an understanding of the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic relationships in jazz and light music, courses in harmony, ear training and rhythm are held.

Lecturers

  • Max Neissendorfer : piano and singing, 1st chairman of the Neue Jazzschool München association and deputy headmaster of the vocational school for music, specializing in rock / pop / jazz, of the Neue Jazzschool München e. V.
  • Franz-David Baumann : trumpet, trombone, ear training, arrangement, composition, ensemble management, form theory, improvisation / style, instrument studies and band workshops, 2nd chairman of the Neue Jazzschool Munich and headmaster of the vocational school for music, specializing in rock / pop / jazz of the Neue Verein Jazzschool Munich e. V.
  • Bernd Hess : Guitar and band workshop
  • Volker Giesek : piano / keyboards, harmony theory and band workshops
  • Tom Reinbrecht : saxophone, clarinet, harmony theory and band workshops
  • Franz Herdlicka : E- / double bass and band workshops
  • Barbara Mayr : Singing and band workshops
  • Andreas Keller : drums, percussion, rhythm
  • Bastian Jütte : drums and ear training

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