A Workshop Built for Adult Learners!
Welcome to JazzWire Twin Cities Summit (July 17-19, 2025), one of the few jazz workshops in the nation focused on passionate ADULT players and students. Built for adults from the ground up, our three-day jazz camp features a renowned faculty of top-notch recording artists and players, who also happen to be great teachers.
JazzWire and Artistic Director Jeff Antoniuk have produced workshops and jazz camps for adult learners for over 25 years in the USA and Canada, and he is bringing his vision to the Twin Cities. At The Summit, you will have plenty of playing time in your small combo, electives, and instrument specific masterclasses, daily jam sessions, and more. When was the last time you got to play jazz, with others, three days straight? For many of us, the answer is years, or never. Now's the time!
Jeff Antoniuk is Artistic Director and one of your teachers for the Summit. He has hundreds of students in over 25 countries through JazzWire, and his free educational videos have been viewed on YouTube well over three million times. Jeff has been called “the best teacher I’ve ever had” by many students, and his warm and supportive style sets a light tone for the workshop. But don’t let that attitude fool you—we are serious about our learning too!
Our Faculty for 2025
Adi Yeshaya
Jeff Antoniuk
Abinnet Berhanu
Elaine Burt
Chris Bates
Zacc Harris
What We Do & How We Do It
JazzWire Twin Cities Summit includes a full week of playing, learning, workshops, jam sessions and faculty concerts! Enrollment is limited to give you lots of personal attention and playing time. The faculty student ratio is 1:8, and our learning environment is focused, intimate and effective. MOST of our playing at The Summit is in a jazz small group – no time wasted sitting in boring classes!
- We have only 42 spots for the In-Person session (July 17-19, 2025). We are open to all instruments (and vocals).
- There are lots of opportunities to play with and trade back and forth with your faculty leaders in REAL time.
- Our playing happens in small groups of 8 or fewer musicians.
- Our playing happens in groups with real jazz instrumentation.
- Artistic Director Jeff Antoniuk groups you effectively and comfortably with players of your ability level (through JazzWire).
The moral of the story . . . don’t delay, these spots go fast!
This is the JazzWire Summit Experience!
JazzWire.net, our online platform is 100% integrated with The JazzWire Twin Cities Summit experience, and you will become a subscriber ($49.95/ mo) to receive all the benefits. JazzWire is home to over 250 adult amateur and semi-pro musicians like you, from around the world, folks are learning, playing, practicing and progressing together like never before.
ALL participants who attend The Summit will become JazzWire members for six months FREE (a $300 USD value), so your experience at The JazzWire Summit will be more in-depth than you will get at ANY other workshop on earth. You will be working on the JazzWire Summit music for months before the workshop (and for months after), so everyone will be showing up with some homework already done. We’ll be ready to play!
All Instruments
No matter what instrument you play, you can play small group jazz with us at the Summit! Sax or flute, trumpet or trombone, bass, piano, guitar or drums. We’ve even had viola, cello, mandolin and bassoon join us. We love working with music teachers, and all instruments are welcome!
Built for Adults
Kids get to have too much of the fun (!), which is why we built the JazzWire Twin Cities Summit from the ground up for ADULT musicians. Aimed at our experience, ability and learning style, the Summit is one of the few workshops in the world to truly focus on the adult musician.
A Six Month Bonus
Every Summit attendee receives a FREE six-month subscription to JazzWire, our online platform. Work with hundreds of adult musicians around the world and over 25 different countries. A $300 value! You’ll work together for months BEFORE the workshop on the music, and you will keep getting input long after.
A word from our Artist Director, Jeff Antoniuk:
The Twin Cities Summit & JazzWire:
The Most Forward-Thinking Jazz Workshop On Earth!
Over the past 20 years, what we hear most at the end of a workshop is “I wish I knew at the beginning of The Summit what I know now. I’d be so much further ahead!” We’ve taken that sentiment to heart, and have created an amazing wholistic experience that begins well before you arrive at the workshop, and continues long after.
JazzWire is an online, global community for adult jazz students, with hundreds of members from over 25 different counties. All musicians attending full days of the Twin Cities Summit are JazzWire members, so your experience with us is unlike that of any other camp or workshop in the world.
Once you join JazzWire, you’ll be able to spend the months leading up to the Twin Cities Summit digging deeper in to our music selections. You’ll be better prepared, more relaxed and confident, and you’ll have met ALL of your Summit workshop peers in advance. JazzWire is a subscription platform, at $50 USD/mo, and you get six months free.
JazzWire Twin Cities Summit Tuition
Full Participant: (July 17-19, 2025)
$799.00 - REGULAR tuition for three days, which includes six months subscription to JazzWire
Limited Participant: (July 17, 18, and/or 19th, 2025)
$250.00 - AUDITOR tuition, per day
Discounts
Siblings, husband and wife, parent and child may each receive a 10% discount on their respective tuition amounts.
Multi Summit Discount
10% off when signing up for two or more upcoming summits!
Summit Auditors
Auditing is a great option for beginner players, those less confident in their skills, or players not able to attend all days of The Summit. JazzWire Summit auditors may attend for one, two, or all three days of camp.
Auditors enjoy all of The Summit classes and electives, masterclasses and lectures. The difference is that auditors are just that - auditing.
Discounts
Siblings, husband and wife, parent and child may each receive a 10% discount on their respective tuition amounts. Active Military also receive a 10% discount (only one 10% discount per person).
Refund/Cancellation Policy
- For cancellations before June 1, 2025, there is a refund of $399.
- For cancellations between June 1 and July 1, 2025, there is a refund of $250.
- Cancellations after July 1, 2024 will not be refunded.
Workshop Location
The Center for the Performing Arts
3754 Pleasant Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55409
CFPA is located in a quiet residential center, just steps to Eat Street, neighborhood services, and Downtown transit. Find out more HERE!