Higher Education
Having established and headed Trinity College of Musics (www.tcm.ac.uk)
Jazz Faculty (1999-2004), Issie now holds the position of Trinity
Colleges Senior Jazz Fellow, giving her more time for her
compositional and touring activities, while still enabling her to
contribute towards the Colleges ever developing Jazz programme
as well as directing the Colleges Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
(who have performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, as well as
London venues, such as Blackheath Halls, Jazz in the Round, Ronnie
Scotts and The Bulls Head).
During
2007 Issie will also be leading performance and composition projects
at the Royal Northern College of Music (www.rncm.ac.uk) and Leeds
College of Music (www.lcm.ac.uk) where shell be co-leading
the Conservatoires UK Big Band http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/cuk-big-band.htm
which shes co-led since 2001, working along side fellow artists
and educators Bob Mintzer, Tim Garland, Mike Hall, Julian Joseph,
Gerard Presencer and Mike Gibbs and Mark Donlon as part of the Leeds
International Jazz Festival http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/leeds-international-jazz-conference.htm
Issie has also been a visiting examiner for the RCM www.rcm.ac.uk,
(since 2001); was co-ordinator for the Certificate in Music Studies
at Goldsmiths College http://secure2.gold.ac.uk/pace/cert-music-studies.php
(1998-1999); was visiting professor and project leader for the Jazz
Faculty at RAM www.ram.ac.uk (1996-1999) when the jazz programme
was under the leadership of composer and educationalist Graham Collier
www.jazzcontinuum.com and was external examiner for the London University's
external degree before its demise in 2004 (after decades of being
the degree that all London universities and conservatoires used
before they all went self validating!!).
Youth
Projects
Artistic Director for the Jazz
Services National Youth Jazz Summer School , which is
funded by Youth
Music and will be hosted by Leeds College of Music (29th July
2007 to 5th August 2007, with a public performance on 4th August
at the Venue on 6pm 8pm) with Alec Dankworth, Kathy Dyson,
Tim Garland, Julian Joseph, Mark Lockheart, Liam Noble, Jeremy
Price, Dennis Rollins and Rowland Sutherland.
Jazz adjudicator for Music
for Youths annual national festival (2001 onwards) working
along side fellow adjdicators Charlie Beale, Michael Garrick,
Trevor Tomkins and Steve Waterman.
"On the Slide, Sweet" co-led by Dennis Rollins
May 2004 commissioned by Youth Music and the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
May 2004. An eight movement suite for an ensemble of 40 beginner
trombonists and a professional octet comprising 5 professional
trombonists and rhythm section. www.cheltenhamfestivals.com
Greenwich and Lewisham Youth Jazz Orchestra at Blackheath
Halls with co-leaders Annie Whitehead and Andrea Vicari (2004-5)
with termly performances at Blackheath Halls and Deptford Albany
Theatre.
Composer in residence for various educational projects
led by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Age of Enlightenments
education department with residencies in Bedford, Basingstoke,
Leicester and various London boroughs (1996 2000)
Jazz
Exam syllabi
Issie was one of the composers commissioned by the Associated Board
of the Royal Schools of Music to write piano accompaniments for
their new jazz horn syllabi grades 1 to 5.
Research Papers
"The talented and gifted young Jazz Musicians of the C21st:
Identifying their needs, assessing their access to national and
regional opportunities and recognising the deficits on a regional
and national scale". Youth Music Feb 2006
"Researching group assessment: Jazz in the conservatoire":
British Journal of Music in Education 2005 Cambridge University
Press.
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