NYJC comes to Yorkshire

In the recent Arts Council England announcement, the National Youth Jazz Collective was was pleased to be announced as one of the organisations to remain an NPO (national portfolio organisation), meaning their funding is secured until 2022.

Following that good news, NYJC have announced that they will be extending their Workshops to five new locations in addition to London and Hampshire; Essex, Bedfordshire, Bristol, Leicester and South Yorkshire.

In each of these locations, 6 full day workshops will take place between October and June. The sessions will be run by professional jazz musicians with each small group working together as a band throughout the year. Musicians will work on improvising, learning new tunes, creative leadership skills and more. Each session culminates in an evening concert, allowing each group to showcase what they've worked on. The faculty of tutors includes some of the UK's finest improvising musicians including Nikki Yeoh, Tom Hewson, Issie Barratt, Kim Macari, Tori Freestone and more.

Musicians of all instruments aged between 8 and 18 are welcome and sessions are tailored for all abilities.

To find out more, visit the National Youth Jazz Collective website.

NYJC seeks new part-time Executive Director

The National Youth Jazz Collective is seeking a new addition to their team in the form of a part-time Executive Director.

From the website...

You will be an experienced Senior Manager able to lead a delivery and management team with particular skills in:

• Charities and arts organisations
• music performance and education activities
• regional and national work
• partnership working
• fundraising and financial management

You will relish the challenge of managing a disparate and sometimes distant team of professionals, volunteers, ex-students and supporters. You will enjoy bringing new skillsets into the organisation and forming new partnerships with like-minded music and business companies & charities.

Issie Barratt says it's a great opportunity for a top arts professional to come join us in building a great new future for jazz!. We’ve a very lovely management and artistic team and enthusiastic President, Vice Presidents and Board of Trustees. We got NPO status in April 2015 and are now based at Kings Place, which is a great place to be.

The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 11th January 2016. Successful candidates will be invited to interview in London on 14th January and 19th January.

Full information can be found on the NYJC's website.