Teachers and mentors
Arturo O’Farrill: Piano
ARTURO O’FARRILL, pianist, composer, and educator, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Arturo’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte. In 2007,…
Jim Seeley: Trumpet
JIM SEELEY (trumpet/flugelhorn, composer/ arranger) studied at Berklee College of Music. He has toured, recorded and/or peformed with Ray Charles, Chucho Valdes, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Louis Bellson, Michel Camilo, Maynard Ferguson, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, The Machito Orchestra, Greg Allman and Friends, and has been a long-standing member and…
Bam Rodriguez: Bass
Bam Rodriguez is a musician, bass player, synthesist, composer and origami artist from Venezuela/Aruba. He started with music at the prestigious “El Sistema”, where he shaped his love for music and for sharing it with others. Then he went off to study in Belgium, in the Netherland and then finally…
Lívio Almeida: Sax
“He… is a jazz saxophonist and composer with a unique vantage point, fully respectingAmerican and Brazilian music and being conversant in both. His technical skills, musicianship, and instrumental prowess place him among the top contenders of his craft.” – Arturo O’Farrill, Grammy winner pianist/band leader Lívio Almeida is a GRAMMY nominee saxophonist…
Zack O’Farrill: Drums
Zack O’Farrill is a drummer/percussionist, educator and big band director from Brooklyn. He performs regularly close to home in Brooklyn, throughout the United States, and across the globe with Adam O’Farrill Stranger Days, Albert Marquès and Freedom First, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña and Mélange, True East, Gina D’Soto, and El Kikirikí Biquéy….
Jasim Perales: Trombone
Trombonist Jasim Perales, a native of Oakland, California, started playing trombone in the fourth grade, and was exposed to jazz while attending the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music Summer Program, under the tutelage of Angela Wellman. He furthered his music education while attending Oakland School of the Arts, and later Berkeley…
Keisel Jimenez: Percussion
Keisel Jiménez Leyva is one of the most in-demand percussionists in Cuba. Born in 1983 in Camagüey, Jiménez worked as a session musician as well as live performer and is especially known for his work with Alexander Abreu y su Havana d’Primera. Since December 2015 Jiménez has been living in…
Joana Obieta: Voice
As a child of a family of musicians, Joana Elena Obieta has been surrounded by music since her early childhood. She played the flute for many years, as well as the upright bass and the saxophone. When she was 11 years old, Joana Elena found her most transparent way of…
Branislav Radojkovic (bass), Goran Milosevic (drums) – Balkan rhythms and harmonization
Branislav Radojkovic is a self-taught bassist and double-bassist. He grew up in a family of musicians and music playing non-stop, thus his taste of music was determined very early in life. He formed his first band as a teenager to escape the grey reality of life in former Yugoslavia, and…
Danijela Veselinovic: Trumpet
Danijela entered the world of music at the age of 9, becoming the first lady of Serbian trumpet music, captivating hearts worldwide with her melody. From her first notes at the primary and secondary level music school in Kraljevo, to overcoming challenges at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad,…
Károly Binder: Piano
Károly Binder pianist, orgonist and composer has applied his talent for new trends, different cultures, different composing techniques and the synthesis of improvising systems, without forgetting his own cultural roots. According to his view on music: “Music is a whole, there are no pieces. It is a real mission, which can be…
Sára Bolyki: Voice
A deep-rooted fascination with the diversity and expressive power in music has fuelled Sára Bolyki on her journey of exploring different genres and styles. After a decade of studying classical piano, she got her jazz singer qualifications at the Béla Bartók Conservatory, studied Georgian vocalpolyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and…
Bálint Gyémánt : Guitar
Hungarian guitarist, composer Bálint Gyémánt is one of the most diverse and imaginative guitarists and composers in Hungarian contemporary jazz. Initially he studied classical guitar, and turned to jazz later on as a young adult. His artistic credo is all about freedom, experimentation and searching for new opportunities and range…
Balázs Horváth: Double-bass
The road that Balázs Horváth took to eventually finding his real instrument, the double-bass, wasn’t as straightforward as one would expect from one of the best and most frequented jazz double-bassists of Hungary today. His love for music started with jazz as a teenager, which made him pick up the…
Máté Antal Kovács: Percussion
Máté’s interest in music comes from his father, Antal Kovács and his grandfather Antal Kovács Gojma, who were the founders of the renowned Hungarian Gypsy band Ando Drom. In the summer of 2004 he first appeared on stage in Rudolstadt, Germany, as a percussionist of the band Romano Drom, where…
Rastko Uzunović: Saxophone and clarinet
Rastko Uzunović is a teacher and multi-instrumentalist from Belgrade Serbia. He studied at the Belgrade Academy of Music where he got his bachelors in classical, clarinet performance and masters in chamber music. As a young student he won over 40 prizes as a soloist and member of ensemble in international competitons. During…
Mátyás Papp: Trombone
Mátyás Papp started playing instruments at a very young age, first the tenor horn, then thetrombone. He completed his jazz studies in Graz and in Vienna. In 2015, he founded his ownband, The Coquette Jazz Bandet, who have released 3 albums and played at numerousnational and international festivals and jazz…
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Workshops and concerts
The artists presenting the traditional instruments are usually available for individual meeting, questions, conversation in the morning period the day after their presentation, during the time period of the individual classes.
Balatonboglár
Residency location
Hospitality
Babel Camp offers accommodation in double or triple rooms (apartments or hostel, depending on our logistics) at Babel Camp, 3 meals per day, and the necessary backline and instruments to be specified in advance.
8630 Balatonboglár, Szabadság út 14-28.
residency
for European musicians
Costs and conditions
We are going to choose 30 to 35 musicians from Europe who will get a chance to enjoy a unique experience of masterclasses and band rehearsals, workshops and concerts, jam and play together with young American musicians and enjoy the wonderful lake Balaton in the summertime from July
14 to 21, 2024 at Babel Camp in Balatonboglár, Hungary.
The costs of the residency – see below – include accomodation and 3 meals / day for 7 days,
individual lessons, ensemble rehearsals, workshop programs, and the necessary backline and instruments to be specified in advance.
Application period closes on June 30.
Selection process and timing:
The selection is based on certain criteria (gender balance, geographical and cultural diversity, instrumental balance) and is exclusively up to the discretion of the organisers and teachers.
Selection is updated every 15 days, so the earlier you apply, the better chances you have to be selected..
Due to the necessity of instrumental balance, if musicians playing the same instruments reach 5 confirmed applicants, the application for musicians with that instrument might be closed.
If you play more than one instruments, please list all of them in the registration form. (e.g. ”drums, percussion, piano”)
After the end of each application period (April 30, May 31, June 30) you will receive an email from the organisers confirming or declining your application. If you are selected, you will have to transfer the participation fee within 5 working days in order to secure your spot.
Cancellation policy:
If you cancel your participation before 15th of May, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel after that date, no refund will be given.
In the unlikely event that a participant decides to leave the camp during its course, no refund will be given.
In case Afro-Balatino Jazz Residency 2024 is cancelled or postponed due to a vis major event (Governmental lockdown, war, pandemia, natural disaster, global economic crises) your paid participation fee will be 100% reimbursed.
Travel costs, however, can not be reimbursed by the organisers.
We strongly advise you to book a flexible ticket for your trip with cancellation or date change option.
The organisers reserve the right to modify the program, schedule, teachers and activities at any time without prior notice. We will make reasonable efforts to inform confirmed participants of any significant changes via email.
