Jazzinty

Jazzinty workshop is an intensive one-week music education academy open to all who are interested in improvisation and jazz. Basic instrumental competence is required; experience and knowledge in jazz is not obligatory. Workshops are attended by up to 100 participants, coming from practically all European countries, the U.S. and even Indonesia, Korea and Africa. The essential characteristics that distinguish it from similar music workshops are as follows:

• Pedagogical programs are established and led by systematically selected mentors, internationally recognized music educators and active musicians coming from different European music academies as well as from the hot New York jazz scene.
• Condensed one-week educational program at the highest level, which runs from the basic, advanced and all the way to professional differentiation, with an emphasis on individual work and stimulation of personal musical expression.
• Participants have the unique ability to create music in the international combo ensembles, led by their mentors and formed on auditions. Performing with musical colleagues from around the world is an invaluable experience for young musicians.
• Through relaxed, informal between mentors, students and other audiences, Jazzinty enables building of bridges and contacts. Jazzinty is often the foundation for the creation of new musical projects, international collaborations or first information for jazz studies abroad.

Jazzinty features 23 years of organizational tradition, which is reflected in the consistently implemented educational programs, events and concerts with professional infrastructure and technical capacities.

Jazzinty artistic directors

Ana Čop (Ljubljana, 1994), a singer and a pianist is currently working between Slovenia and Switzerland, where she is finishing her Master’s studies at the prestigious Jazzcampus university in Basel. She finished her Bachelor studies at KunstUni Graz. She is performing extensively with her projects »ACTS!«, »Trokut« and « Lilamors » throughout Central Europe and she is also active as a teacher. She is a co-author of a children’s play “Čuk se je oženil… v Ameriko” and the pedagogical materials “Skok v vsakdan glasbenika”, an artistic director of Jazzinty and the winner of MM Jazztalente Competition (2018).

Domen Bohte (Ljubljana, 1994), got both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Prins Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, Netherlands. He is the artistic director and the head of production of Jazzinty. He is working as a bass player, studio musician, producer, composer and an organizer. He uses his international experiences in conteporary and modern musical practices. He was a member of Slovenian and international ensembles: Container Doxa, C H I M E R A, Hiske Oosterwijk Quartet and Austeja Žvirblyte Quintet and an ex-member and founder of the Slovenian rock sensation Mrfy. He studied and performed with internationally praised musicians, such as: Tim Lefebvre, Wayne Krantz, Evan Marien, Becca Stevens, David Binney, Matt Wilson, Michael Mossman, Jonathan Kreisberg, JD Walter and many others.