IASJ JAZZ EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2010

Keynote Speakers.

Mr. Shuller passed away on June 21 2015. The Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University lost one of its most prominent honorary doctorates.
"I have been to and worked at almost every place on earth. Yet never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would be invited to a jazz conference in Corfu, Greece and receive an honorary degree from a University music department. Thank you very much." - GS

Our principal keynote speaker will be Mr. Gunther Schuller, a world-renowned musician, composer, conductor, educator, academic, scholar and writer well known also for his pioneering work in connecting 20th century classical music with jazz through numerous compositions, reviving, restoring and performing historical jazz works from Scott Joplin to Charles Mingus, recording with Miles Davis on "Birth of The Cool" and establishing the Jazz and Third Stream departments at the New England Conservatory as early as 1969. His view on the role of improvisation in contemporary musical education will be the starting point of the conference.

View gallery of Gunther Schuller in Corfu 2010.

Mr. Antoniou passed away on December 26 2018. The Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University lost one of its most beloved collaborators.

Our second keynote speaker will be Mr. Theodore Antoniou, one of the most eminent and prolific contemporary composers, also a conductor, a professor of composition at Boston University and an active performer of new music. Mr. Antoniou holds the position of president of the National Greek Composers' Association.