IASJ

2019 IASJ Service Bureau – Executive Director Reports

IASJ Service Bureau

• Sending out requests for payment of membership fee to 128 individual, ordinary and associate members.
• Setting up the ledger account and the five-year report together with the bookkeeper.
• Arranging a one-day-a-week workspace in Unit-2, a collective, city subsidized office in Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Moving the IASJ achieves from the Royal Conservatory to a self-storage building near Leiden.
• Writing, editing and sending out IASJ Newsletters.
• Mail correspondence to the Artistic Director, the board, the members, others.
• Maintaining and setting up websites: www.iasj.com www.2019iasjzagreb.com www.2020iasj.newyork.com www.2020iasjconferencethehague.com

Executive Director: meetings and conferences

• Preparing and assisting the 2019 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Zagreb including the photo editing and sound editing of the final concerts.
• Preparing and assisting ‘The Team’ of the 2020 IASJ Jazz Meeting in New York.
• Preparing and collaborating with the faculty of the Royal Conservatory for the 2020 IASJ Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands.

• Preparing and assisting the host school of the 2021 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Munich.

Executive Director: travels and visits

• March, New York, Grand Rapids: meeting with Keller Coker, Lydia Liebman, others in New York; meetings with Kurt Ellenberger and representatives of the GVSU Library at Grand Valley State University in Michigan in order to prepare the IASJ Jazz Research Journal.
• April, Bremen: Jazzahead; networking with the jazz music business in Europe; meetings with IASJ members, possible members, jazz artists, representatives of the Europe Jazz Network;
• June, Graz: present at the funeral of for IASJ chairman Karl-Heinz Miklin; speech in name of the IASJ during the funeral service.
• July, Zagreb: participating and assisting in the 2019 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Zagreb, Croatia; preparing the documents for the General Assembly.
• September, Paris: participating in the three-day World Forum on Music of the IMC; participating in the ADEJ board meeting (Jean-Charles Richard); visiting the IMEP (Phil Hilfiker).
• October, Munich: on-site visit of the 2021 host school of the IASJ Jazz Meeting; meetings with Andi Kissenbeck and Claus Reichstaller.