Juilliard Winter Jazz School

For 32 of Australia’s most passionate and promising young jazz musicians, the opportunity to participate in a week of intensive workshops led personally by Carl Allen, Artistic Director of the Jazz Program at Juilliard, and four other faculty members, was almost unimaginable.

Dreams came true at the inaugural Juilliard Winter Jazz School at Trinity College, The University of Melbourne, held 28 June–2 July.

Mr Allen was thrilled with the students’ responses. He has run similar programs in Korea, Spain and Japan, but the Winter Jazz School at Trinity was the first Juilliard School offered in Australia and was the product of a new partnership recently established between Juilliard and Trinity College.

“The purpose of the overseas Jazz Schools is to inspire the students to become better musicians,” Mr Allen says. “How do you achieve that in just five days? By laying the foundations of what to work on after we’ve gone.”  Photo: Mark Chew 2010.