Focus Year Band 17/18

Musikakademie Basel’s focusyear is a one-year course for an internationally assembled ensemble of nine people, who will be coached in a regular cycle by acknowledged masters of the international Jazz scene.

The students selected for Focusyear receive a full scholarship covering tuition and the cost of living, in order to allow them to focus on music exclusively.

Over the course of the year, the ensemble creates concert programs and records an album, which will be produced in the school’s own recording studio. The band will perform regularly in the school’s Jazzcampus Club. A club tour is being organized for spring and a festival tour for the summer.

Line Up:
Yumi Ito (voc)
Sergio Wagner (tp)
Paco Andreo (tb)
Enrique Oliver (ts)
Szimon Mika (guitar)
Olga Konkova (piano)
Danny Ziemann (bass)
Marton Juhasz (drums)