Yamaha Education Blog » Jazz Experience Workshop, Portsmouth

On Saturday 7th March the Yamaha Jazz Experience took the first of its 1-day jazz improvisation workshops to Portsmouth. Teachers from Portsmouth and surrounding music services, who were new to jazz inprovisation, attended the workshop, which was led superbly by jazz stars/educators, Tim Garland and Andrea Vicari. Teachers attending the day enjoyed a range of activities including sessions on how to tackle improvisation repertoire with young people as well as a wonderful performance by Tim and Andrea, just to show what could be done!

The day was a great success and many of the teachers who attended have already asked where they can go for additional training/support. Our growing list of suggestions can be found here, including the Dordogne Jazz Summer School, directed by Andrea Vicari.

We understand that some teachers were unable to make the Portsmouth session. Anyone who teaches music to 11-19s can apply to attend ANY of the workshops, simply by completing the application form and returning it to Angela Whittington at Yamaha.