Jazz & Sonic Arts: GATHER LISTEN HEAR - Summer residency

Pictured: Jazz Club, Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, 2017.
Cello: Okkyung Lee, Vocals: Jen Shyu, Saxophone: Tia Fuller, Guitar: Matt Stevens. Photo by Rita Taylor. 

An innovative program for early career jazz and sound artists to become changemakers, explore new directions and advance your creative potential. 

Jazz and Sonic Arts engage with sound in innovative ways, using improvisation, experimentation, and technology to expand sonic possibilities of music. Both are ever-evolving and diverse genres which create a powerful synergy to inspire creativity for multidimensional transcendent artistic experiences. Jazz and Sonic Arts are also catalysts for cultural dialogue, empowerment, positive societal change, and ecological awareness.

This three-week program brings together early career artists from around the world to work with exciting, internationally celebrated performers, creators, and mentors that have made significant contributions to artistic innovation in Jazz and Sonic Arts. The goal is to build community that feels the inspirational energy of making creative music in an immersive, inclusive and transformative
learning environment. 

This program will culminate in a four-day summit, GATHER LISTEN HEAR. This internationally significant, multidisciplinary artistic gathering boasts a suite of public events, collaborative concerts and deep pedagogical engagements across Indigenous Arts, Jazz & Sonic Arts, and the Walter Phillips Gallery.

Scholarship of 100% of tuition and 50% of meals and accommodation is available for this program.