New Spark Jazz Orchestra
www.nsjo.org
Partners: Citizen Association- cooperation ARTRUST, Subotica, Serbia; Faculty of Music, University Goce Delchev - Stip, Macedonia; Music School Tivat, Montenegro; Big Band Krsko, Slovenia; Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, Fiuggi Città, Italia
New Spark Jazz Orchestra- Balkan Women in Jazz is an innovative artistic program with the aim to facilitate access to gender equal professional opportunities, to strengthen and increase the number of women musicians and composers on the Regional Jazz Music Scene, what promote the visibility of women music professionals. United partners in the project from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, experts from Hungary and Italy, are forming a strong sustainable platform for cross-sectorial international networking, in area of music production, education, and promotion, opening new career and job potentialities for independent artists. Through open call, 15 Balkan emerging women musicians and composers will be invited to participate in 15 months program, forming the New Spark Jazz Orchestra, self-sustainable innovative music business model, using Jazz music as the Universal Idiom, with the opportunity to cooperate regionally and to internationalise their careers. Program contains 2 one week-long music residencies with ensemble and big band workshops, on-line educational web portal, promotion of new jazz learning methods on symposium, led by Educational team, formed of highly recognized music experts from the region. With obtained professional skills, and having rehearsed their own original music material, Orchestra perform on 4 Regional concerts in 3 countries, publishes promotional CD/DVD of their music, participates in promotional side events, integrating new audience development strategies such as open rehearsals and lectures, jam sessions with local musicians/music students, and interactive discussions, in order to promote and support development of Balkan contemporarymusic. Vibrant and creative project activities encourage interest in Jazz contemporary art form and gender equality on Balkan cultural scene.
New Spark Jazz Orchestra- Balkan Women in Jazz is an innovative artistic program with the aim to facilitate access to gender equal professional opportunities, to strengthen and increase the number of women musicians and composers on the Regional Jazz Music Scene, what promote the visibility of women music professionals. United partners in the project from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, experts from Hungary and Italy, are forming a strong sustainable platform for cross-sectorial international networking, in area of music production, education, and promotion, opening new career and job potentialities for independent artists. Through open call, 15 Balkan emerging women musicians and composers will be invited to participate in 15 months program, forming the New Spark Jazz Orchestra, self-sustainable innovative music business model, using Jazz music as the Universal Idiom, with the opportunity to cooperate regionally and to internationalise their careers. Program contains 2 one week-long music residencies with ensemble and big band workshops, on-line educational web portal, promotion of new jazz learning methods on symposium, led by Educational team, formed of highly recognized music experts from the region. With obtained professional skills, and having rehearsed their own original music material, Orchestra perform on 4 Regional concerts in 3 countries, publishes promotional CD/DVD of their music, participates in promotional side events, integrating new audience development strategies such as open rehearsals and lectures, jam sessions with local musicians/music students, and interactive discussions, in order to promote and support development of Balkan contemporarymusic. Vibrant and creative project activities encourage interest in Jazz contemporary art form and gender equality on Balkan cultural scene.