X Bishkek International Jazz Festival – "Jazz_Bishkek_Spring"
From April 10 to 12, 2015, the Jubilee X Bishkek International Jazz Festival – “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” will take place.
The festival will feature 11 groups from 7 countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The festival will be hosted by the renowned jazz critic, musicologist, editor-in-chief of the magazine Jazz.Ru, and author of books on jazz, Kirill Moshkov (Moscow).
The motto of the festival is “Music Without Borders.” Our mission is to build bridges in the name of friendship and understanding between peoples through cultural cooperation. Jazz is an international language of communication among musicians; it is created in every corner of the earth, it is democratic music, the music of free and creative people.
The organizer of the jazz festival is the Public Fund “Central Asia - Art Management” (OF CAAM). The festival has been made possible thanks to the support of the Christensen Fund (USA), the Embassy of Switzerland, the Goethe-Institut, the Embassy of Austria, and the Embassy of Germany.
The jazz festival format approaches generally accepted standards, with concerts and events taking place simultaneously at several venues. The venues for the jubilee festival will be the Great Hall of the Kyrgyz National Philharmonic named after T. Satylganov, the Culture Palace named after N. Baitemirov in Tokmok, the Republican Children's Library named after K. Bayalinov, the Music College named after M. Kureneev, and the Art Club “Studio 247.” During the festival, there will also be master classes by foreign jazz masters for young musicians from Kyrgyzstan and a jam session for festival participants.
As part of the festival, the first Conference “Ethnojazz in Central Asia” will also take place, featuring well-known musicologists from Russia, China, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Conference participants will discuss the problems and prospects for the development of jazz in Central Asia. The conference is a logical continuation, but at a qualitatively new and substantive level, of the seminars “Ethnojazz in Central Asia.” From 2010 to 2014, as a result of 5 seminars, collections of materials, CD, and DVD discs were published.
Currently, OF CAAM is also implementing the “Ethnojazz Laboratory” component, which, as part of the larger project “Cultural Puzzles,” aims to create a communication platform for expressing identity, strengthening mutual understanding and integration between different cultures, as well as raising community awareness of each other's cultures. The results of the first “Ethnojazz Laboratory” were presented at the IX International Festival “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” in April 2014. The project was implemented by eleven musicians from Central Asia. The central figure was a manaschi, a storyteller of the Kyrgyz epic “Manas.” The results of the experiment received positive feedback in the media and among jazz music enthusiasts. During the Jubilee Festival, the second “Ethnojazz Laboratory” will take place, coordinated by the famous jazz musician from Russia, Alexey Kruglov. The curator of the project is Kanikei Mukhtarova.
Tickets range from 300 soms in the balcony to 800 in the stalls.
Tickets are available at the philharmonic box office.
Phone: (312) 61-40-15, 61-40-52;
Break from 15:00 to 16:00.
