Jazz School Begins Classes

The second BAU Jazz School Certificate Program, organized by the Bahçeşehir University Art Unit (BAUART) to bring jazz music to wider audiences and make it more popular, starts in October. In the five-month program, classes will be taught by musicians such as Baki Duyarlar, Nilüfer Verdi, Şevket Akıncı and Sibel Köse.

The BAU Jazz School Certificate Program, organized by the Bahçeşehir University Art Unit (BAUART), is starting. The second edition of the program, which accepted its first students in January with the aim of bringing jazz music to wider audiences and making it more popular, begins its new term in the first week of October this year.

At the Jazz School, where participants receive a certificate at the end of the program, all students take general music theory and performance courses such as harmony, solfège, ear training, analysis of jazz styles within jazz history, rhythmic studies or ensemble. They work individually with instructors in their chosen field and also take a total of five hours of joint classes: "jazz theory" and "ensemble or rhythmic studies" with Baki Duyarlar, and "analysis of jazz styles within jazz history" and ear training with Şevket Akıncı. Including a one-hour private instrument lesson, the training, totaling 24 hours per month over five months, will be held at Bahçeşehir University Galata Campus.

Famous musicians are among those who will teach at the Jazz School, which offers piano, guitar, bass, trumpet, saxophone and drum training as well as individual vocal lessons and vocal workshops. Classes will be taught by names such as Baki Duyarlar, Nilüfer Verdi, Şevket Akıncı, Sibel Köse, Başak Yavuz, Kağan Yıldız, Şenova Ülker, Tamer Temel, Ferit Odman, Güç Başar Gülle and Uraz Kıvaner.

Classes are planned to be held on weekday evenings between 19:00 and 22:00 and on weekends, preferably on Saturdays or Sundays.

For more informationhttp://www.bahcesehir.edu.tr/idaribirimler/bauart/caz_okulu