The Tuscia In Jazz Seminars are an extraordinary chance to meet world’s greatest jazzmen and to become better musicians and better humans. The classes are open to everyone who mean to improve his knowledge of one ore more instruments in the jazz music field, and will take place all day-long with instrument lessons, ensamble music lessons and classes of theory and harmony. At the end of the seminars the students will be given a certificate of attendance. With the Tuscia In Jazz’s teaching format, a single enrolment fee allows to attend every single instrument class and every concert with no extra costs. At the end of the summer camp, during the Night In Jazz, students will play on stage with their teachers.

Antonio Sanchez

Antonio Sánchez was born in Mexico City and started playing drums at the age of five. By his teen years he had already begun playing professionally. He attained a degree in classical piano from the National Conservatory in 1993 and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study at Berklee College of Music. After he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies, Sanchez obtained a scholarship for a Masters in Jazz Improvisation at Boston’s New England Conservatory. While Sanchez was still at the Conservatory in 1997, his teacher, Danilo Perez, recommended him to Paquito D’Rivera for the drum chair in Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, which led to him touring with the orchestra. Later in 1997 Perez invited Sanchez to be a part of his acoustic trio which resulted in extensive touring, and the recording of the Grammy nominated album “Motherland”. The tour resulted in his being heard by legendary guitarist Pat Metheny who invited Sanchez to join the Pat Metheny Group as its drummer after a series of auditions.
The group recorded two albums with Sanchez. The first one, Speaking of Now, won a Grammy Award in 2003 in the “Best Contemporary Jazz Album” category. A DVD under the same name documenting the tour has been released. The second effort, The Way Up, was released in January 2005. Sanchez has been a part of various quartets and trios under Metheny’s direction. The Pat Metheny Trio (Metheny on guitar, Sanchez on drums, and Christian McBride on bass) released Day Trip in January 2008 to wide acclaim amongst jazz critics. In 2007 he recorded his first solo effort, Migration. The album includes Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Chris Potter, David Sanchez and Scott Colley. All About Jazz called it “One of the best debuts of 2007.” Sanchez said of the album: “I didn’t want people to say this is a drummer’s album…I wanted it to be something that could be from any instrumentalist. I thought in terms of music, not how many solos I got and if I blew enough chops or not. I wanted the music to be very melodic and accessible and with a lot of really good interplay.”
Antonio has made New York City his home since 1999 and joined the Faculty of New York University in 2006.

Jeff Ballard

Jeff Ballard is an American jazz drummer from Santa Cruz, California. He has played with Ray Charles and Pat Metheny and plays periodically with Chick Corea in many groups such as Origin and The Chick Corea New Trio. He also played with many New York based Jazz musicians such as Reid Anderson, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon and Eli Degibri. He is a member of the collectively led trio Fly. As well, he played several times with the renowned American jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman.


Marcus Gilmore

Drummer, born in 1987, Marcus Gilmore is one of the most important drummers in the inexhaustible recent U.S. jazz scene. Grandson of Roy Haynes, he graduated from the High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, before getting a musical education from the informal leaders of the groups with which he started playing very young, trumpeter Graham Haynes as his uncle , or Steve Coleman. He has collaborated among others with Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Natalie Cole, Clark Terry, Nicholas Payton, John Patitucci, Cassandra Wilson, Steve Coleman, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Ravi Coltrane, Terence Blanchard, Vijay Iyer, Roy Hargrove Raul Midon, Ambrose Akinmusire, Yosvany Terry and Gretchen Parlato. It ‘was repeatedly the subject of several articles in publications such as The New York Times, DownBeat Magazine and Modern Drummer.