BOSJE Virtual Jazz Meet
Learn the different instruments in a jazz band, their various roles, some basic theory, and also how to play them.
In this course, we cover the following:
- Voice
- Trumpet
- Violin
- Flute
- Alto Saxophone
- Trombone
- Piano
- Tenor Saxophone
- Drums
- Clarinet
- Bass Guitar
- …and more
Meet Your Instructors
About Us
BOSJE Virtual Jazz Meet
In 2020 when social distancing requirements were introduced, all training and events were stopped. The music, however, could not stop.
In partnership with FNB Botswana Foundation, we developed the BOSJE Virtual Jazz Meet, an online platform to enable the continuation of our teaching programs, reaching people all over Botswana, and for the first time, globally.
About BOSJE?
Botswana Society For Jazz Education was formed in 2016 to create a platform for jazz musicians and aspiring jazz musicians to grow, to share ideas and have their work documented. BOSJE hosts workshops and events teaching and training students on Jazz Education. One of the aims of the society is to form jazz big bands in communities across the country. So far, the society has got 3 Jazz big bands, 2 junior band and a senior one.
Akhutlheleng Kekwaletswe
Meet our Leader – Akhutleleng Kekwaletswe
Akhutleleng Kekwaletswe is the founding Director and principal of Kingdom Arts Academy, a performing arts school in Gaborone Botswana. She is a music teacher by profession who has been teaching for the past 18 years. She has taught in both government and private secondary schools before she established Kingdom Arts Academy in 2013.
Mrs. Kekwaletswe is a Fulbright Distinguished Award for Teachers alumni who graduated in May 2020. She was placed at Syracuse University in Syracuse NY, USA from January 2020. Her passion lies in equipping young people with musical skills that they can turn into their careers as professional musicians who can fit anywhere they found themselves in the world.
Akhutleleng is the founding chairperson of Botswana Society for Jazz Education (BOSJE). Mrs. Kekwaletswe had the opportunity to take one of the junior bands to Langnau Jazz nights in Switzerland in July 2019 for a junior jazz meeting and performances.
Mrs. Kekwaletswe has attended a lot of festivals and conferences around the world either as a participant or a facilitator. In 2017 she was a presenter at the Jazz Education Network in New Orleans USA where she presented on how to recruit girls into jazz programs and keep them.