Hello, I am Claus Reichstaller, head of the Jazz Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, Germany. It is a great please and an honor to be the host school for the 2021 IASJ Jazz Meeting.
IASJ
International Association of Schools of Jazz
Founded in 1989 in Germany. Headquarters in The Netherlands. Annual IASJ Jazz Meeting hosted by top-level jazz schools world-wide
International Association of Schools of Jazz
IASJ: the world-wide network of performers, educators and researchers in jazz
In mid-Germany on a misty and rainy April day in 1989, a dozen interested people in jazz education came together, invited by David Liebman. Plans were made to do something for jazz students, teachers and heads of departments. The idea for the IASJ Jazz Meeting was born. Over the past three decades the IASJ Jazz Meeting has brought together thousands of jazz students who became the top performers of today, jazz educators who constantly reinvent jazz pedagogy, and jazz directors who determine the future of jazz and jazz education.
Welcome to the Jazz Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts
The IASJ Jazz Meeting was a life-changing experience to me. I feel truly connected to the world of jazz now. The IASJ has extensively expanded my international network.
student
participant
Listening to my colleagues from around the world I know now what to do, and not to do. Like me, they all were performers. I will perform and record with quite a few of them sooner or later.
teacher
participant
I never thought that I would be so inspired by colleagues form such remote places around the world. Jazz and jazz education is a word-wide movement, as the IASJ makes clear.
director
head of jazz studies
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Kerry Walsh
Managing Director, Dublin
IASJ policy statement
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