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Adults
Afro-Cuban
Beginner Jazz
Children - jazz
Confidence Building for all
Group Improvising
Improvisation
Masterclasses for Music Students
Mindfulness and Performance: The 4Ps - new approach
Samba
KAIYO - music education
Workshops, masterclasses, special sessions
The members of KAIYO possess a wealth of educational experience across all age groups and levels. Alongside performance, KAIYO can offer complementary educational activities on the same day or days adjacent to a performance booking.
What we can offer
Samba and Afro Cuban coaching, for children or adults any age group 10 years upwards.
Group sessions in jazz - beginners/introduction to jazz.
Amy Baldwin is currently a NYJO Associate Educator, as part of their NYJO’s Learning & Participation programme has the broad aim of ‘levelling the playing field in jazz education’. She has taught on Summer Schools and is a leading and active figure in the development of female jazz talent through her successful Girls in Jazz Projects with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she has devised and delivered special days for young women and girls interested in jazz. Amy is qualified teacher and possesses appropriate safeguarding checks.
Although Simon Purcell is as jazz educator with an international profile and author of educational research, he remains committed to all educational contexts, from community music to the conservatoire. A passionate music educator and thinker, Simon has been active in the conservatoire sector since 1987, first as a senior lecturer within the jazz course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama from1987 to 2005, Head of Jazz at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music between 2005-2017 and now returning to the Guildhall as International Professor of Improvisation. He has contributed to the development of jazz education in the UK for many years and in 2006 was awarded Jazz Educator of the Year by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group. Simon was a member of the Pop and Jazz Platform within the Association of European Conservatoires between 2009-2018 and his research into teacher-development in jazz education was published by Ashgate in 2005 and was. His work in jazz education has taken him to Brazil, China, New Zealand and many parts of Europe.
Jon Scott’s expertise across genres makes him invaluable in learning situations, not least as a master-percussionist, fluent in Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music as well as the dialects of jazz. He has presented workshops in conservatoires in the UK and Scandinavia.