The Carly Stowell Foundation is hosting a free concert featuring a youth all star jazz band from Germany called BuJazzO at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 1, at Kentlake High.

BuJazzO is in the Seattle area as the featured guests of the Central Jazz Festival in Port Townsend and had an open date prior to flying home, wrote Chuck Stowell in an email, so this seemed like a great opportunity.

The BuJazzO, Germany’s Youth Jazz Orchestra, sponsors qualified and talentedyoung jazz musicians in Germany. As an institution involved in the musical training ofyoung people, it is unique of its kind worldwide.

Young instrumentalists and singers can apply to join the BuJazzO, the musicians selected are then invited to audition. Successful candidates have the opportunity to develop their talent for a further period of two years up to a maximum age of 24.

The current concert repertoire is rehearsed with changing line-ups in working modules that take the form of an intensive musical training in a professional master course atmosphere. The artistic directorship of rehearsals and stage work alternates and is performed by renowned artists . The working modules are followed by guest performances at home and abroad, where the results are presented to an international audience.

The BuJazzO, winner of the 1997 German Music Prize an 2009 Jaz Prize of West German Broadcasting Service, has given over 400 concerts, undertaken twenty international tours and produced numerous broadcast recordings.

For more information about BuJazzO, log on to www.bujazzo.de.