Join our National Summer School’s daily 5pm Facebook live streams – from Sunday 16th through to Friday 21st August.
Top Tips – Summer 2020
Join our National Summer School’s daily 5pm Facebook live streams – from Sunday 16th through to Friday 21st August.
#NationalYouthJazz Wednesdays
NYJC alumni, tutors and key shakers and groovers on the current scene in conversation with NYJC Artistic Director Issie Barratt. Here’s the upcoming schedule of our online series of interviews for #NationalYouthJazz Wednesdays at 6pm.
Laura Jurd
NYJC Summer School year(s): 2007 Ivor Composer Award 2019 – jazz large ensemble Laura Jurd is a trumpet player, composer and improviser from the UK. A recipient of multiple awards and a BBC New Generation Artist from 2015-2017, Laura has developed a formidable reputation as one of the most distinctive and creative composer-performers to emerge […]
Asha Parkinson
NYJC Summer School year(s): 2014, 2015, 2016 Asha Parkinson is a London-based composer and saxophonist whose work regularly crosses the boundaries between traditions. She was twice semi-finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition and was shortlisted in the 2016 BBC Inspire Composers Competition. Additionally, she was one of 20 young people internationally to win […]
Sahra Gure
NYJC Summer School year(s): Short course 2013 Summer School 2014 Musicians’ Company Young Jazz Musician Award 2019 Winner of the Musicians’ Company Young Jazz Musician Award 2019, Vocalist Sahra Gure is already pipped by Jazzwise as ‘one to watch in 2020’.Born in Berlin to German/Somali parents and raised in Norwich Sahra moved to London in […]
