Emerging Artists Association

(fka. TUJF inc.)

Who we are

EAA Emerging Artists Association (Formerly known as Toronto Undergraduate Jazz Festival Inc.) is a federally incorporated nonprofit organization creating opportunities for equity-deserving groups of emerging artists to showcase, learn and network.

Our Mission

  • Organization Overview: 

    • EAA is a platform for music dreamers to learn music without any concerns: provide mentoring from TUJF artists along with the necessary instruments supplied throughout the year.

    • Through our long-term TUJF musicians mentoring, the youth beneficiaries become TUJF musicians in the future who will mentor other young music dreamers.

  • Events Overview: 

    • To create showcasing, learning and networking opportunities for equity-deserving groups of emerging artists (45 or younger) in Canada.

    • To help recognize and promote individual and collective works of equity-deserving groups of emerging artists in the local and broader communities.

    • To facilitate the experience of Jazz in the Now (the jazz music of today).

    • To educate the public on the cultural significance of emerging artists’ music and the diversity of today’s music.

OUR vision

  • To bridge the evolving equity-deserving groups of emerging artists with mentors and the community.

core values

  • Opportunities

  • Communication

  • Community

  • Education


The mission is to create development opportunities for undergraduates in Ontario; to educate the public in the cultural significance of jazz and the diversity of the genre; and to help recognize and promote individual and collective works of undergraduate students in the Toronto Jazz community.
— Yvan Baker, former MPP, Toronto, Ontario