AMIS Events Academic Year 2010-2011

All the festival dates listed include the Wednesday and Sunday travel days and the three actual festival days of Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

List of 2010-2011 dates as a.pdf

Please send all Honor Jazz Festival Auditions to:
Richard Hein
ACS Hillingdon International School
108 Vine Lane
Hillingdon, Uxbridge
Middlesex UB10 0BE
United Kingdom

September 29-October 3, 2010
American School of Paris
Host Organizer: Hal Halvorsen
Guest Conductor: Adam Hart ASD

honor jazz festival

October 13-17, 2010
International School of Beijing
Host Organizers: David Beckstead and Cindy Bulteel
Big Band Conductor: Randy Wanless
Vocal Jazz Ensemble Leader: Rick Hein

Note: ISBeijing has offered to house participants for an extra night before the festival
to make it possible for those coming from afar to have the 13th as a "Cultural Day"

Jazz Workshop also to be offered - details coming soon

workshop for students and teachers of ib music

November 10-14
American Embassy School New Delhi;
Host Organizer: Christine Matovich
Presenter: James Yarnell
Note: Priority will be given to students and teachers from Asia and the Middle East

circuit training for strings,
a workshop for middle school string players

Weekend of November 19, 20
American School of The Hague
Host organizer: Darrell Townshend

Contact Darrell Townshend if interested: dtownshend@ash.nl

middle school honor mixed choir

The American School of Doha
January 12-16, 2011
Host Organizer Sanford Jones
Guest Conductor: TBC

asian ms honor band festival

January 19-23, 2011
International School of Bangkok
Host organizers: Brent Poling and Kentaro Udagawa
Guest Conductor: Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos

solo and ensemble festival

Saturday, 29 January, 2011
The American School of The Hague
Host Organizer: Jim Yarnell

Asian Middle School Honor Girls' Choir

February 9-13
Hong Kong International School
Host Organizer, Kathryn Bechdoldt
Guest Conductor, conductor tba

senior honor orchestra and the honor women's choir (combined festival)

February 16-20, 2011
International School of Beijing
Host Organizer: Cindy Bulteel
Choir Guest Conductor: Lynn Gackle of Baylor University; Orchestra conductor: Matthew Spieker

high school honor band and honor mixed choir

March 16-20, 2011
American School of The Hague
Host Organizer: Jim Yarnell
Guest Conductors: Andre Thomas and Jerry Luckhardt

european middle school honor band

March 23-27, 2011
International School of Düsseldorf
Host Organizer: Matthew Hall
Guest Conductor: Kent Walter

junior honor orchestra

13-17 April, 2011
American International School Vienna
Host Organizer: Bonnie Reinitzer
Guest Conductor: Malcolm Yuen

european middle school honor girl's choir

27 April - 1 May, 2011
International School of Luxembourg
Host Organizer: James Libbey
Guest Conductor: Evelyn Smith

If you are interested in the possibility of hosting an event, please contact Georgia Bassett at AMIS Headquarters.