Europe Day Jazz Concert – The “First Herd” of the Bavarian Youth Jazz Band

HANOI:
Jam Session: Thu 08 May 2014, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
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Gala Concert: 09 and 10 May 2014, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
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HCMC: Sun 11 May 2014, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House

From Goethe Institut and Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam:

In celebration of the Europe Day, a group of the most gifted among the Bavarian Youth Jazz Band, also known as “Bavarian First Herd”, will perform a program ranging from traditional Swing by jazz greats like Count Basie or Duke Ellington to modern kinds of Bebop, Latin, Funk and Fusion compositions in Hanoi and HCMC. Moreover, the young musicians will present some of their own arrangements and compositions.

Before playing three gala-concerts in Vietnam, some of the musicians from the Bavaria Youth Jazz Band jam at the inner courtyard of the Goethe-Institut. You are warmly invited to bring your instruments and join the musicians.

The Bavarian Youth Jazz Band (LJJB), under the artistic direction of Harald Rüschenbaum, is considered one of the most brilliant in Germany. The members have mostly been discovered at the federal music competition “Jugend jazzt”. Besides meeting four times per year for intensive working phases, the young ensemble regularly performs on national and international stages, examples being USA, Russia and the Czech Republic. Their aim is to build bridges between music and musicians from different cultural backgrounds.

Harald Rüschenbaum

The artistic director of the ensemble, is an internationally renowned percussionist and bandleader. He has been acknowledged with several awards for his dedicated commitment to the support of young jazz musicians. Besides managing the LJJB and other ensembles, Rüschenbaum is a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.

Tickets

Jam Session at Goethe Institut: Free entrance

Concert at Hanoi Opera House and HCMC Opera House, free tickets can be collected from Tuesday 06 May 2014, 10 am at:

Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Tel: +84 4 37342251 – 9

or
Goethe-Institut HCMC
18, Duong So 1, Cu xa Do Thanh, Quan 3
Tel: +84 8 36009587

Goethe-Institut Hanoi 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học Ba Đình, Hà Nội Tel.: +84 4 37342251 Fax: +84 4 37342254 [email protected] website