The Leiria Jazz Association (AJL) decided to keep as president one of the teachers who was dismissed from the Hot Clube, a jazz school in Lisbon, after a complaint of harassment by a student, and after learning that it is one of the most mentioned names. on the musical harassment complaint channel, as reported by Observador last week.
In a post on social media, the association announced this Monday that it had met with the target, who made “the position of president of the AJL available,” but that “the majority decided not to remove the president.”
The publication of the Leiria Jazz Association on Instagram
The president of the Association “was never the subject of any complaints from teachers or students of the Leiria Jazz School, and no inappropriate behavior attributed to the recipient or other members of the teaching staff of the Leiria Jazz School was ever reported ( EJL)”, which. It depends on the Associação Jazz de Leiria, the statement reads.
For the association, “the situations reported on social networks about abuses committed in the jazz community in Portugal must be brought to justice as soon as possible, determining, in the appropriate place, the appropriate responsibilities.”
These are accusations of harassment against the president of the Leiria Jazz Association, who is also pedagogical director of the Leiria Jazz School, artistic director and conductor of the Leiria Jazz Orchestra and professor of the music department of the University of Évora. The silence, until then, of the Leiria institutions led Paulo Jorge Batista Santo, musician of the Leiria Jazz Orchestra and professor at the Leiria Jazz School, to cease his duties in both entities.
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Following the accusation of rape by DJ Liliana Cunha (stage name Tágide) against pianist João Pedro Coelho, Hot Clube, an important jazz club associated with the Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School, announced that in the 2021 academic year/ 2022 had eliminated two teachers due to “harassment situations.”
One of these retired teachers from the Hot Clube school, reported the Observer, is “one of the most focused names” in the complaints channel that emerged in the context of the movement that calls for denouncing sexual harassment in the musical field.
With the statement released this Monday on social networks, it is the first time that the Leiria Jazz Association has spoken out about the case that has shaken the jazz community. In the shared text, the association highlights that the president provided “all the clarifications requested” in internal meetings and that “it has met many times with the aim of creating all the internal conditions so that its activity can be carried out with the normality and quality that They have been constant to this day.”
El Observador tried to contact the president of the Leiria Jazz Association, without success.
Source: Observadora
