Master Class by Avishai Cohen and Dubi Lenz
13 October 2015
Dubi Lenz, artistic director of the Red Sea Jazz Festival and Avishai Cohen, jazz trumpet player are holding a master class and lecture organized by the Embassy of Israel
The program starts with the lecture 'Israel’s Melting pot of eastern and western musical traditions' held by Dubi Lenz and ends with the master class by Avishai Cohen.
Time (lecture)
22 October, Thursday, 14:00
Time (master class)
22 October, Thursday, 16:00
Venue
Main Building, Room I (lecture room)
(1061 Budapest, 8 Liszt Ferenc square)
Both lecture and master class are open to anyone interested. All applicants must send their applications to Mr. Ádám Kirkósa at kirkosa.adam[at]zeneakademia.hu
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen – voted a Rising Star three years running in the DownBeat Critics Poll – has earned renown as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active internationally as a leader, co-leader and sideman. The New York Times described him as “an assertive, accomplished trumpeter with a taste for modernism." The trumpeter also records and tours the world as part of the prestigious SF Jazz Collective, as he does with The 3 Cohens Sextet – the hit family band with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. With The 3 Cohens, Avishai has twice headlined the hallowed Village Vanguard, as well as appeared on the cover of the January 2012 issue of DownBeat. He is also co-leader of Third World Love, a longstanding multicultural venture with bassist Omer Avital, pianist Yonatan Avishai and drummer Daniel Freedman.
Dubi Lenz, world music authority, Northeastern University. Lenz is an international leader in the World Music scene, with a distinguished career as a radio broadcaster and music festival producer. From New Zealand to the Ivory Coast to Denmark, Dubi has been a producer and broadcaster on Israeli music around the world, and is co-artistic director of Israel's largest music festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival summer edition.