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Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra is the place to learn jazz in Devon!
DYJO teaches
young people from across the whole of Devon including Exeter, North Devon,
South Devon, Torbay and Dartmoor to play and perform a wide variety of Jazz.
DYJO has won many
national awards over its history for its performances and educational
programme, and continues to play to enthusiastic audiences in Devon and beyond.
Our main educational programme includes intensive monthly rehearsals from
September to March, as well as a three-day residential in October half-term.
Recent
performance highlights have included:
* Music festivals
throughout Devon, including Teignmouth Jazz Festival, Dart Music Festival,
Budleigh Jazz Festival, Salcombe Festival.
* Concerts with
jazz stars including Dave O'Higgins, Gordon Campbell, Bruce Adams, John
Etheridge, and many more.
* A performance
at the Music for Youth Primary Prom at Exeter University.
* Tours to
perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2010 and 2012.
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The Devon Youth
Jazz Orchestra comprises the best of Devon's young jazz musicians and is split
into two separate bands. DYJO2, under the direction of Brian Moore, is the
younger of the two bands, and is focused on the essentials of big band playing:
ensemble skills in swing and many other grooves, and the fundamentals of jazz
soloing.
DYJO1, with Graham Hutton, is the senior band, and aims to stretch the
players' skills in all directions in a wide range of repertoire, and to raise
them to a standard of playing comparable with the best youth big bands in the
country. In addition, DYJO has a specialist sax coach, Roz Harding, one of the
region's top jazz musicians, who also leads rehearsals for the Devon Jazz
Ambassadors, the small band drawn from DYJO
We are always
looking for new players, aged 11-18. If you are keen to find out more about us,
please check our website: www.dyjo.org
or email: mail@dyjo.org for more
details.
Dart Music Festival 10th/11th/12th 2013
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