Teaching

Colijn is the musical coach of Zizo (ladies a capella close harmony vocal group).

Colijn offers lessons in Piano, Improvisation, Music Theory and Solfege (also as preparation for admission exam of conservatories) For lessons, you can contact him.

He will be offering a workshop (october 23 & 30, 6 & 14 november 2004) titled ´Your own style - On studying efficiently´ at the SJU jazzpodium, for information see this link.

a.o.:
Brink, Bert van den - How to build your solo (transcription by Colijn Buis)
Crook, Hal - How to Improvise
Fischer, Clare - Harmonic Exercises for Piano (Advanced Music, 1996)
Leeuw, Ton de - Muziek van de Twintigste Eeuw [Een Onderzoek naar haar Elementen en Structuur] (Utrecht, Bohn, Scheltema en Holkema, derde druk 1977)
Lendvai, Ernö - Symmetries of Music [An Introduction to Semantics of Music] (Kodály Institute, 1993)
Werner, Kenny - Effortless Mastery [Liberating the Master Musician Within] (Jamey Aebersold Jazz, 1996)