Jazz Camp for Girls 2025 open for applications

Jazz Camp for Girls* is a 3 day music summer camp where girls aged 11-16 can explore and learn about jazz music and improvisation in a supportive and fun environment, that also celebrates the role of women working in music. Led by professional musicians, the camps are designed to give girls their first experience of improvised music and develop confidence in their personal musicality.

Participants can come with no or little experience of improvising, just a curiosity to learn. A background in any music genre and all instruments are welcome.

Professional female musicians and educators working in jazz lead the girls as mentors and tutors over the 3 day camps, sharing their own experience as performers, while guiding the participants to explore their own interests and ability as musicians.

The deadline to apply for Jazz Camp for Girls is Friday 6th June.

The Jazz Camp for Girls 2025 programme is made possible through the continued support of DCU Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance Degree, the support of Fingal Arts Office, and the Improvising Across Boundaries project funded by Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Research Council, in association with UCD School of Music, with additional support from MTU Cork School of Music.

Please note, places on Jazz Camp for Girls are limited and will be allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis.

LOCATION: St Patrick’s campus, DCU, Dublin 9
DATES: Tue 1st - Fri 4th July 2025
TIMES: 10am-2:30pm daily
TUTORS: Jenna Harris, Emily O'Rourke, tbc
COST: €45 for the 3 day camp. Scholarships available, please contact Caitriona at admin@Improvisedmusic.ie to enquire.

LOCATION: MTU, Cork School of Music
DATES: Tue 8th - Fri 11th July 2025
TIMES: 10am-2:30pm daily
TUTORS: Sarah Dewhurst, Brenda Griffin, Rebecca Ruane
COST: €45 for the 3 day camp. Scholarships available, please contact Caitriona at admin@improvisedmusic.ie to enquire.

LOCATION: UCD School of Music, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4
DATES: Tue 15th - Fri 18th July 2025
TIMES: 10am-2:30pm daily
TUTORS: Suzanne Savage, Emily O’Rourke, Andrea Jones
COST: €45 for the 3 day camp. Scholarships available, please contact admin@improvisedmusic.ie to enquire.

Background:
Jazz Camp for Girls began in Denmark in 2014, with camps now running around the world, including Poland, Slovenia, UK, Sweden, Canada and Turkey. The camps are developed in response to continuing gender imbalance in jazz and improvised music, with the aim to support and encourage young female-identifying musicians interested in exploring improvisation, jazz music and creative risk-taking, whatever their instrument or background.

* While we retain the established title of the Camp, we welcome all and any gender-diverse young musicians.