COVID-19 is not slowing us down.
Maryland Winter Jazz has gone VIRTUAL!
This is a crazy time around the world, and literally no one knows what things will look like in a week, let alone a month. For that reason, Maryland Winter Jazz is offering a 100% safe and amazing effective online workshop. We had 70 thrilled members at our virtual summer workshop this past July, and they asked for more! Join us for three incredible days of Maryland Winter Jazz, an experience that wouldn’t be possible in the real world.
The ability to connect, to be inspired, and to move ahead like crazy in our playing and understanding is still there, perhaps like never before. Your decision to invest in yourself certainly hasn’t changed. If anything it has become more dear. We are going to help you run with that.
New Super Special Guests - A Different Guest Lecturer For 75 Minutes Each Day!
Chris Potter
Terell Stafford
Mike Stern
It’s a new world, and we are embracing not only what is possible, but what has previously been impossible. You will be doing a ton of playing online, attending engaging classes, asking questions, and connecting with other adult musicians from around the world, using the Zoom platform. Imagine working for 75 minutes each day with someone like Chris Potter, Mike Stern and Terell Stafford, and doing a private lesson with Jeff Antoniuk or one of our other core faculty members!
Serious Fun & Connection
Maryland Winter Jazz is one of the few jazz workshops in the world focusing on ADULT students. If you are looking for an amazing faculty, loads of fun and inspiration, an innovative curriculum and fantastic organization, you’ve found us. Participants and faculty continue to rate our sister program Maryland Summer Jazz among the finest adult camps in the world. Learn and play in small combos with top recording artists, Grammy winners, YouTube personalities and university professors. Exciting electives round out the virtual jazz camp experience. A thousand adults students from around the world who have worked with us can’t be wrong!
Adult Amateurs & Semi-Pros
MWJ helps serious semi-pros and adult amateurs get to the next level in their playing. If you are eager to dig in, to connect with great information, and to work with some of the finest players and teacher on the scene today, you have found your place! We are also a great “winter refresher course” for full time music teachers. Novice jazz players are also very welcome to get moving with us - you supply the passion, and we’ll get you playing better than you ever thought possible. This works because we know you and your playing from the work we will do together, in advance, at JazzWire.
Show Up Prepared & Leave With A Plan
When you register for MWJ, you’ll become a member of JazzWire, the only online community for adult jazz players (6-month initial commitment, with monthly subscription after that). There, EVERY participant at Maryland Winter Jazz will be working together before the January event, investigating and practicing the MWJ music together. Imagine showing up one day one, confident, relaxed and ready to go! And then, when MWJ is over, you’ll have a plan for your musical future. Jazz Wire will be your ongoing jazz workshop throughout the year. See more on JazzWire below.
Maryland Winter Jazz & JazzWire: The Most Forward-Thinking Jazz Camp On Earth
Over the past 16 years, what we hear most at the end of camp is “I wish I knew at the beginning of MWJ what I know now. I’d be so much further ahead!” We’ve taken that sentiment to heart, and have created an amazing
wholistic experience that begins well before you arrive at camp, and continues long after.
JazzWire is an online, global community for adult jazz students, with hundreds of members from over 25 different counties. All musicians attending MWJ are JazzWire members, so your experience with us is unlike that of any other camp or workshop in the world.
Once you join JazzWire, you’ll receive a personalized Practice Plan and Playing Evaluation, which allows you to spend the months leading up to Maryland Winter Jazz 2021 digging deeper into the song selections. You’ll be better prepared, more relaxed and confident, and you’ll have met ALL of your Maryland Winter Jazz campers in advance. You will show up on the first day of MWJ, meeting friends who you’ve known on JazzWire for many weeks and months! JazzWire is a subscription-based educational experience - your time on JazzWire will be the best investment you ever made in yourself and your playing. Find out more on the Workshop Information page.
JazzWire is an online, global community for adult jazz students, with hundreds of members from over 25 different counties. All musicians attending MWJ are JazzWire members, so your experience with us is unlike that of any other camp or workshop in the world.
Once you join JazzWire, you’ll receive a personalized Practice Plan and Playing Evaluation, which allows you to spend the months leading up to Maryland Winter Jazz 2021 digging deeper into the song selections. You’ll be better prepared, more relaxed and confident, and you’ll have met ALL of your Maryland Winter Jazz campers in advance. You will show up on the first day of MWJ, meeting friends who you’ve known on JazzWire for many weeks and months! JazzWire is a subscription-based educational experience - your time on JazzWire will be the best investment you ever made in yourself and your playing. Find out more on the Workshop Information page.